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.
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.
To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.
Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.
Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
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.
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
'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!
Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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