Warm Christmas

Christmas is a necessity.

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Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves. Eric Sevareid

As we struggle with

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As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Donald E. Westlake

Christmas, my child, is

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Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas. Dale Evans

I have always thought

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I have always thought of Christmas time… as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that

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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! Charles Dickens

But I am sure

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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

I will honor Christmas

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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Charles Dickens

Christmas is not a

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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. Calvin Coolidge

Unless we make Christmas

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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