Devotions on Christmas

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Quotations on Christmas

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
*** Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.
- George Mathew Adams
*** It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One!
- Charles Dickens
*** Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
- Mary Ellen Chase
*** Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.
- Anonymous
*** If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away.
- Anonymous
*** Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
- Phyllis Diller
*** The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
- Jay Leno
*** A Christmas shopper's complaint is one of long-standing.
- Anonymous
*** Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
- Washington Irving
*** Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months.
- Oren Arnold
*** He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree.
- Roy L. Smith
*** Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
- Calvin Coolidge
*** Many banks have a new kind of Christmas club in operation. The new club helps you save money to pay for last year�s gifts.
- Anonymous
*** Christmas is a race to see which gives out first - your money or your feet.
- Anonymous
*** Christmas carolers sing about peace on earth, but they don�t tell us where.
- Anonymous
*** The hour is swept and garnished; The walk has been brushed, and the stair; The crystal and silver are gleaming But oh, is the Christ Child there?
- Lela Bassford
*** It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
- W. T. Ellis
*** This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ.
- Frank McKibben
*** No Santa Claus! Thank God, he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
- Francis P. Church
*** There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
- Erma Bombeck
*** I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
- Harlan Miller
*** 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
*** Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.
- W. C. Fields
*** Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
- Johnny Carson
*** The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.
- Johnny Carson
*** Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
- Kin Hubbard
*** Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it "white".
- Bing Crosby
*** Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
- Edna Ferber
*** And remember, it's His birthday - [pause] - not your's. (Traditional Christmas Eve closer)
- Paul Harvey
*** 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? (from Marvin)
- Tom Armstrong
*** The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.
- Joan Rivers
*** I went to Sunday school and liked the stories�about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful, but I didn't believe them. It was too vague.
- Frances Farmer
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