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And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch of their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."
Luke 2:8-12, Bible


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A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.
Eva Logue

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale

Born in a stable,
Cradled in a manger,
In the world His hands have made,
Born a stranger.
Christine Georgina Rossetti

Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship.
Dr. Thieme

Christmas living is the best kind of Christmas giving.
Van Dyke

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.
Henry David Thoreau

I never realized God's birth before,
How He grew likest God in being born...
Such ever love's way--to rise, it stoops.
Robert Browning


The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.
John Andrew Holmes

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
Bill McKibben


Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.
Carol Nelson


He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!
Charles Dickens


The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
Mencius

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.
Cotvos

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Emerson

The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.
Ralph W. Sockman

Selfishness makes Christmas a burden;
Love makes it a delight.

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey

The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.
W. C. Jones

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

"It's Christmas Day!" said Scrooge to himself. "I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can.
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire

Seek joy in what you give... not in what you get.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty;
not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.
Rev. Billy Graham

Christmas is telling time--wondering time. Wonder enough about it, and you'll know, and you'll tell about it....
Roy Rogers

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.


I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens


Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving


And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
Dr. Seuss


Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved. Augusta E. Rundel


People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.
Ogden Nash

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabie

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Burton Hillis

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
Harlan Miller

Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.
Joan Mills

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore


Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving


I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
E.M. Forster


Oh! lovely voices of the sky
Which hymned the Saviour's birth,
Are ye not singing still on high,
Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?
Felicia Hemans


I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays - let them overtake me unexpectedly - waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: "Why, this is Christmas Day!"
David Grayson



Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen Chase


I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
Charles Dickens


Christmas is a spark that ignites in someone's heart.

How many angels are there?
One--who transforms our life--is plenty.


At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year
Thomas Tusser


O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!
To fold a world in the embrace of God!
Guy Wetmore Carryl

For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.
Loring A. Schuler


Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people once a year.
Victor Borge

Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.
Helen Steiner Rice

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?
Arlo Guthrie

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


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. Pahro

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.
Norman Vincent Peale

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
Pope John XXIII

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
Andy Rooney

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
Margaret Thatcher

Jesus is the reason for the season!

What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb.
If I were a Wise Man
I would do my part.
Yet what can I give Him?
I give Him my heart.
Christina Rossetti

Let's approach Christmas with an expectant hush,
rather than a last-minute rush.

God grant you the light in Christmas, which is faith;
the warmth of Christmas, which is love;
the radiance of Christmas, which is purity;
the righteousness of Christmas, which is justice;
the belief in Christmas, which is truth;
the all of Christmas, which is Christ.
Wilda English

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.
Van Dyke

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.)And everyone went to his own town to register.
So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:1-7, Bible

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.
Charles Dickens


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

You know you're getting old, when Santa starts looking younger.
Robert Paul

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
Bernard Manning

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Deborah Whipp

"A merry Christmas, Bob!" said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back. "A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob! Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit.
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol


Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.
Joanne Woodward



Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money?
Tom Armstrong


Before the ice is in the pools, before the skaters go, or any cheek at nightfall is tarnished by the snow, before the fields have finished, before the Christmas tree, wonder upon wonder will arrive to me!
Emily Dickenson


Merry Christmas, Nearly Everybody!
Ogden Nash


Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
Francis C. Farley

Merry Christmas to All!
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