Until one feels the spirit of it, there is no Christmas. All else is outward display, so much tinsel and decorations. For it isn’t the holly, the snow, the tree, not the firelight’s glow. It’s the warmth that comes to the hearts of men when it returns again.
Christmas Quotes
If the Christ child had been born in a mall instead of a manger, we would not be celebrating Christmas today. The Three Wise Men would have never found a place to park.
Be naughty and save Santa the trip.
Peace on earth, the quiet wish of every heart, the focus of each prayer, is that this season be the start of goodwill everywhere.
The Christmas tree has taken the place of the altar in too much of our modern Christmas observance.
When Jesus was born, midnight turned to midday; and when he died, midday turned to midnight. When he was born, heaven was lit up with splendor, and from angelic choirs the Bethlehem song was heard. But when he died, heaven put out her brightest light.
It is not even the beginning of Christmas unless it is Christmas in the heart.
We do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas. First, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it. And second, because we find no scriptural warrant for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior. Consequently, its observance is a superstition.
People say that Christmas today is too commercialized. If you spend money to give people joy, you are not being commercial. It is only when you feel obliged to do something about Christmas that the spirit is spoiled.
While shepherds watch’d their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The Angel of the Lord came down, And Glory shone around.
