The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
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.
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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.
Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
'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!
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value
You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it.
All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.
The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.
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