Christmas Giving Quotes

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.

  George Matthew Adams

  Christmas, Heart, Thinking

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• the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christmas, Famous Inspirational, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “Somehow not only for Christmas”

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• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Funny, Women

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• Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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  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.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Forgiveness, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1983). “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.281, Library of Alexandria

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• Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

  Bing Crosby

  Christmas, Xmas, Blessed

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

  Bill Vaughan

  Inspirational, Family, Happy

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• Good news from heaven the angels bring,
  Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
  To us this day a child is given,
  To crown us with the joy of heaven.

  Martin Luther

  Christmas, Children, Angel

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• The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

  Pierre Corneille

  Birthday, Christmas, Giving

  "The Liar". Play by Pierre Corneille, 1643.

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• Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts.

  Max Lucado

  Christmas, Shepherds, Groups

  Max Lucado (2013). “God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Inspirational, Motivational, Christmas

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.189, Everyman's Library

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• When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled.

  Joel Osteen

  Christmas, Giving Up, Spirit

  "Interview: Joel and Victoria Osteen on Christmas, Stewardship". Interview with Josephine Vivaldo, www.christianpost.com. November 16, 2010.

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• There is no name so sweet on earth,
  no name so sweet in heaven,
  The name, before His wondrous birth,
  to Christ the Savior given.

  George Washington Bethune

  Christmas, Sweet, Names

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• What can I give Him,
  Poor as I am?
  If I were a shepherd
  I would bring a lamb.
  If I were a Wise Man
  I would do my part.
  Yet what can I give Him?
  I give Him my heart.

  Christina Rossetti

  Christmas, Wise, Heart

  Christina Rossetti, Simon Humphries (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.211, Oxford University Press

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• It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

  Paul van Dyk

  Family, Christmas

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• When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.

  Joanne Woodward

  Christmas, Giving Up, Vivid

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• For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

  William Jewett Tucker

  Christmas, Xmas, Cheer

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• I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
  I notice this, each year I live;
  I always like the gifts I get,
  But how I love the gifts I give!

  Carolyn Wells

  Christmas, Xmas, Years

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• 'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet,
  Could we bestow the gifts we get,
  And keep the ones we give away,
  How happy were our Christmas day!

  Carolyn Wells

  Christmas, Blessed, Giving

  Carolyn Wells (2016). “Childhood Essentials Library - Carolyn Wells Edition: 29 Novels & 150+ Poems, Stories, Fables & Charades for Children (Illustrated): Patty Fairfield Series, Marjorie Maynard Collection, Two Little Women Trilogy, Mother Goose's Menagerie, The Jingle Book, A Phenomenal Fauna, The Seven Ages of Childhood, Children of Our Town¦”, p.4002, e-artnow

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• Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

  Oren Arnold

  Christmas, Xmas, Tolerance

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• I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

  Bernard Manning

  Funny, Birthday, Christmas

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• The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

  O. Henry

  Christmas, Wise, Art

  O Henry (2014). “The Gift of the Magi and Other Christmas Stories”, p.8, Xist Publishing

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• Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

  Kin Hubbard

  Christmas, Children, Mean

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• Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Christmas, Sarcastic

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