Christmas Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 12

Christmas is the season of joy,
of holiday greetings exchanged,
of gift-giving, and of families united.

Christmas is a bridge,
We need bridges as the river of time flows fast,
Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.

Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.

Christmas isn''t a season. It''s a feeling.

Christmas, my child, is love in action. ... Every time we love, every time we give, it''s Christmas.

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant 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.

Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence.

Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you ... to remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old ... Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest ting in the world ... stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death... Then you can keep Christmas! But you can never keep it alone.

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

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.

Christmas is a time to expand our giving encompassing the friendless and needy ... near and far. Christmas is sharing.

Christmas has a way of bringing out the best in everyone.

Feathery flakes are falling, falling from the skies in the softest way, And between are voices calling, Soon it will be Christmas day!

Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show.
The secret lies in an inner glow.
It''s lighting a fire inside the heart.
Good will and joy a vital part.
It''s higher thought and a greater plan.
It''s glorious dream in the soul of man.

At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge, said the gentleman, taking up a pen, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.

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

Christmas isn''t just a day, it''s a frame of mind.

Christmas gift suggestions from Oren Arnold: 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.

Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.

And so, this Christmas season
may our hearts with gladness glow,
As we read the blessed story
That took place so long ago.

The Christmas spirit--love--changes hearts and lives.

Christmas, weddings, funerals, graduations, retirements, and births are like speed bumps in life; we slow down, look around, think about our lives, and then once over the bump, we speed up to our usual pace.

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.

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one''s home that one carries in one''s heart...

Christmas is the time for looking ahead courageously through the gates of the swiftly approaching new year ... of resolving that the coming months will reflect a kinder, more forgiving and less heedless person than mirrored in the past.

I''m dreaming of a white Christmas.