|
"I sometimes think we expect too much of christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is christmas Day" »David Grayson
|
|
"christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes." »Joan Winmill Brown
|
|
"christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect." »Oren Arnold
|
|
"'Out upon merry christmas What's christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should'" »Charles Dickens
|
|
"At christmas play and make good cheer, For christmas comes but once a year." »Thomas Tusser
|
|
"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
|
|
"christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved." »Augusta E. Rundell
|
|
"It is christmas in the heart that puts christmas in the air." »W. T. Ellis
|
|
"christmas night, stars shine bright, and all the angels are singing. 'The Son of God is Born' Little child, holy child, how I want to be near you, this blessed christmas night." »Garry Gamble
|
|
"Love came down at christmas Love all lovely, love divine Love was born at christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign." »Christina Georgina Rossetti
|
|
"The grace of God means something like Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too." »Frederick Buechner
|
|
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity." »Roosevelt, Eleanor
|
|
"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences." »Freeman John Dyson
|
|
"If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks." »Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05
|
|
"Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
|
|
"Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity." »George W. Bush
|
|
"With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing." »Catherine de Hueck
|
|
"What you are is God's gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift back to God." »Kelly Jeppesen
|
|
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." »Emile Zola
|
|
"Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift (Rom. 126-8)." »Bruce Kemper
|
|
"It has been said that God's gift is also indescribable because of the grace by which it is given. God, who is rich in mercy, gave the world the gift of His dear Son while we were at enmity with Him. Paul says 'But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us' (Rom. 58). Therefore, in Him we are freely given all things redemption, forgiveness of sins, righteousness, peace, hope, wisdom and knowledge." »Paul Sadler
|
|
"...tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune." »Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor
|
|
"Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours." »Noela Evans
|
|
"I will honor christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year." »Charles Dickens
|
|
"A good conscience is a continual christmas." »Benjamin Franklin
|
|
"A turkey never voted for an early christmas." »Irish Proverb
|
|
"Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouthTame the dragon and the gift is yours." »Noela Evans
|
|
"christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends." »Larry Wilde
|
|
"A merry christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world" »Charles Dickens
|
|
"...it was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us" »Charles Dickens
|
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
