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
Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child. – William Saroyan
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
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it "white". – Bing Crosby
Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself. – Norman Wesley Brooks
For many of us, sadly, the spirit of Christmas is "hurry". And yet, eventually, the hour comes when the rushing ends and the race against the calendar mercifully comes to a close. It is only now perhaps that we truly recognize the spirit of Christmas. (...) With all its temporal confusion, it may just help us to see that by contrast, Christmas itself is eternal. – Burton Hillis
The earth has grown old with its burden of care,
But at Christmas it always is young.
– Phillips Brooks
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. – Jimmy Cannon
Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. – William John Cameron
The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of Christ's birth. – Charles H. Spurgeon
"Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more." – Dr. Seuss
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday. – Gladys Tabor
Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts. – Lenora Mattingly Weber
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. – Eric Sevareid
The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much. – Henry David Thoreau
Christmas is the time to let your heart do the thinking. – Patricia Clafford
Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body. – Garry Moore
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. – Janice Maeditere
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? – Bob Hope
If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas? – Don Meredith
Christmas is the happiness that lights our children's eyes.
Christmas is a song of bells ringing through the skies.
Christmas is a time of peace, of contentment deep within,
A time of love and silent hope that years will never dim.
– Sherrill Thompson
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. – Norman Vincent Peale
It is not the gift, but the thought that counts. – Henry Van Dyke
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. – Mary Ellen Chase
Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world - stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death - and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas. – Henry Van Dyke
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. – Burton Hillis
Christmas is the day that holds all time together. – Alexander Smith
Christmas has lost its meaning for us because we have lost the spirit of expectancy. We cannot prepare for an observance. We must prepare for an experience. – Handel H. Brown
For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind. – Loring A. Schuler
Peace on Earth will come to stay,
When we live Christmas every day.
– Helen Steiner Rice
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
Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most. – Ruth Carter Stapleton
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. – Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. – Dale Evans
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. – Stephen Fry
This time of year means being kind
to everyone we meet,
To share a smile with strangers
we may pass along the street.
– Betty Black
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. – Charles Schulz
When we ask our children 'What do you want for Christmas?', we are asking a question that breeds selfishness. In order to develop selflessness we should be asking 'What are you going to give?' – Robert Flatt
To celebrate the heart of Christmas is to forget ourselves in the service of others. – Henry C. Link
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. – George Matthew Adams
The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart. – Helen Keller
I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness. – Carrie Fisher
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
At Christmas, all roads lead home. – Marjorie Holmes
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. – William Turner Ellis
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness. – Bob Hope
As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. – Donald E. Westlake
He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree. – Charlotte Carpenter
Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence. – Joan Mills
This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. – Taylor Caldwell
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. – Dag Hammarskjold
Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes. – Joan Winmill Brown
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. – Laura Ingalls Wilder
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. – Peg Bracken
Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. – Calvin Coolidge
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. – Larry Wilde
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. – Hamilton Wright Mabi
Peace on Earth will come to stay when we live Christmas Day every day. – Helen Steiner Rice
I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the word seemingly most indifferent. – Taylor Caldwell
Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends. – Margaret Thatcher
I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it. – Christina Applegate
Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. – Oren Arnold
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. – Norman Vincent Peale
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal. – Lenore Hershey
A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; it makes no noise at all, but softly gives itself away; while quite unselfish, it grows small. – Eva K. Logue
It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one's fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit. – Isabel Currier
As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is. – Eric Sevareid
There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries. – William J. Cameron