Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves.
Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.
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!
Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.
Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man.
Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down.
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.
Advent is patience. It’s how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
The real message of Christmas is not the gifts that we give to each other. Rather, it is a reminder of the gift that God has given to each of us. It is the only gift that truly keeps on giving.
Happy day after Christmas and a merry rest of the year! Even when Christmas is over, the light of the world is still here.