Perspectives on Christmas

A few insightful perspectives on Christmas. Pick a couple. Ponder them throughtout the season!

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

2.“Christmas gift suggestions: to your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.” ~ Oren Arnold

3.“He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree.” ~ Charlotte Carpenter

4.“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” ~ W.T. Ellis

5.“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!” ~ Hamilton Wright Mabie

6.“Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.” ~ Janice Maeditere

7.“Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” ~ 7-year-old named Bobby

8.“Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.” ~ Ruth Carter Stapleton

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

10.“Let us have music for Christmas…Sound the trumpet of joy and rebirth; Let each of us try, with a song in our hearts, to bring peace to men on earth.” ~ Mildred L. Jarrell

11.“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

12.“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

13.“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

14.“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” ~ Charles Dickens, Ebeneezer Scrooge

15.“Until one feels the spirit of Christmas, there is no Christmas. All else is outward display–so much tinsel and decorations. For it isn’t the holly, it isn’t the snow. It isn’t the tree not the firelight’s glow. It’s the warmth that comes to the hearts of men when the Christmas spirit returns again.” ~ Unknown

16.“Ask your children two questions this Christmas. First: What do you want to give to others for Christmas? Second: What do you want for Christmas? The first fosters generosity of heart and an outward focus. The second can breed selfishness if not tempered by the first.” ~ Author Unknown

17.“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

18.“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” ~ Charles Schulz



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