What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
~Agnes M. Pharo
Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.
~Carol Nelson
The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
~Helen Keller
Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words.
~Harlan Miller
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
~Shirley Temple
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
~Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
~Mary Ellen Chase
There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.
~W.J. Cameron
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
~Larry Wilde
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
~Charles Dickens
With every gift that you receive take a moment to recall a shining star...
a manger... and the greatest Gift of all.
~unknown
The children’s eyes on Christmas night could light the town with sparkling light.
~unknown
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.
~ Dale Evans
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
~Norman Vincent Peale
Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.
~ Charles Dickens
Christmas living is the best kind of Christmas giving.
~ Van Dyke
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
~Bess Streeter Aldrich
Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.
~Ruth Carter Stapleton
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