Christmas Quotes - Page 7

• I grew up with a Christmas tree, I'm going to stay with a Christmas tree.

  Thomas Menino

  Tree, Grew Up, Christmas Tree

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• There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.

  Thomas Merton

  Shepherds, Jerusalem, Today

  "Evangelical Sunday School Lesson Commentary 2013-2014". Book by Lance Colkmire, p. 164, January 5, 2012.

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• Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends.

  Larry Wilde

  Running, People, Seasons

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• What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?

  Salman Rushdie

  Jesus, Santa, Kind

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• We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

  Pope Paul VI

  Faith, Xmas, Inspiration

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• What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies. Oh, see the air is shaken with white and heavenly wings-- This is the Lord of all the earth, this is the King of Kings.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Mother, Kings, Lying

  Richard Watson Gilder (2013). “The Celestial Passion”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!

  Evelyn Underhill

  Ideas, Mixing, World

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

  Edna Ferber

  Love, Feelings, Seasons

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney”, p.100, Booklassic

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• Xmas Trivia: Before it became a major shopping holiday, Christmas is believed to have had a "religious" meaning.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Religious, Xmas

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Dec 23, 2012

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• The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

  Phillips Brooks

  Xmas, Earth, Care

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

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Dating, Mind, States

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• The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Lying, Generosity, Giving

  Charles Dudley Warner (1871). “My Summer in a Garden”

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• The birth of Christ our Lord was more than an incident, it was an epoch in the history of the world... He came to teach us the character of God, and by example and precept pointed out the path which, if we walk in it, will lead us back into his presence. He came to break the bands of death with which man was bound, and made possible the resurrection by which the grave is robbed of its victory and death of its sting.

  Heber J. Grant

  Character, Men, Victory

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

  William Saroyan

  Children, Eye, Sight

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• 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 Matthew Adams

  Love, Baby, Jesus

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• 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.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Song, Xmas, Heart

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1985). “Journey Into Christmas and Other Stories”, p.207, U of Nebraska Press

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

  Pat Boone

  Heart, Spirit Love, Spirit

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• The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

  Alice Cooper

  Morning, School, Holiday

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

  Freya Stark

  Home, Heart, Events

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.61, I.B.Tauris

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• Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Life, Positive, Happiness

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• A joy that is shared is a joy made double.

  John Roy

  Joy, Twins, Made

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• Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.

  Karolyn Grimes

  Movie, Angel, Wings

  "Fire In Belltown, USA Destroys Last Bell Factory". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. May 31, 2012.

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• The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

  Phillips Brooks

  Song, Xmas, Angel

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• There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Observance, Christmas Day

  Henry van Dyke (2015). “The Spirit of Christmas”, p.15, Booklassic

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• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  Garrison Keillor

  Love, Funny, Xmas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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