That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
Christmas Quotes
Christmas would mean nothing if it were not shared with someone. It is a festival which cannot be indulged in alone. The gaudy red ribbon about the simplest gift causes that gift to take on a merit which it did not possess before; and just as a single rose may light up a room, so […]
Merry Christmas, Nearly Everybody!
At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. (Love’s Labour’s Lost)
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
Good King Wenceslas looked out, On the Feast of Stephen; When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even.
Some say that ever ‘gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm; So hallow’d and so gracious is the […]
At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. (1557, The Farmer’s Daily Diet)
O come all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.
If Christmas were just the birthday of a great teacher, like Socrates or Buddha, it would never have split time into two, so that all history before the advent of Christ is called B.C. and all history after, A.D.
