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The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another. Jesus is the reason for the season! From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

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

The ... challenge of Christmas is this: justice is what happens when all receive a fair share of God's world and only such distributive justice can establish peace on earth.

The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .

The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

The Christmas spirit - love - changes hearts and lives.

The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.

[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere.

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

The Christmas season is a gift in itself. It releases us from the priorities of ordinary time and gives us the right to party more and pray more and love more.

The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give.

The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire himself figured down several couple with a partner, with whom he affirmed he had danced at every Christmas for nearly half a century.

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

The day I saw my mom eating the Santa cookies on the plate was one of the most horrific days of my life.

The day's at end and there's nowhere to go, Draw to the fire, even this fire is dying; Get up and once again politely lying Invite the ladies toward the mistletoe.

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

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.

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.

The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural one to the British, and not one to be eradicated by changes of political or religious fashion. ... It was general custom in pagan Europe to decorate spaces with greenery and flowers for festivals, attested wherever records have survived.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

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.

The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.

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

The holly green, the ivy green The prettiest picture you've ever seen Is Christmas in Killarney With all of the folks at home.

The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it.

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.The Sunday World was a dry-stall interlude in my wanderings.

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

The mystery of the Holy Night, which historically happened two thousand years ago, must be lived as a spiritual event in the 'today' of the Liturgy," the Pope clarified. "The Word who found a dwelling in Mary's womb comes to knock on the heart of every person with singular intensity this Christmas.

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper.

The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.

The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round--kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.

The Post Office is very careful nowadays. When they get a package marked "Fragile," they throw it underhand.

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.

There are a lot of things money can't buy. Not one of them is on my son's list.

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.