Christmas Verses To Celebrate The Season

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“If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.”
– Mahalia Jackson

“Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Christmas is for whoever is old enough to have denied the unquenchable spirit of man.”
– Margaret Cousins

“At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o’er sea and land And none are left to grieve alone For Love is heaven and claims its own.”
– Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“Christmas for children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.”
– Mary Ellen Chase

“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.”
– Mary Ellen Chase

“He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl and a sleepy carpenter. God tapped humanity on its collective shoulder, “Pardon me,” he said, and eternity interrupted time, divinity interrupted carnality, and heaven interrupted the earth in the form of a baby. Christianity was born in one big heavenly interruption.”
– Max Lucado

“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again. With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.”
– Meredith Willson

“It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you…yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.”
– Mother Teresa

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Christmas is forever, not for just one day For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away Like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself.”
– Norman Wesley Brooks

“People can’t concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.”
– Ogden Nash

“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

“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
– Peg Bracken

“The threat of Christmas hung in the air, visible already in the fretful look of passersby as they readied themselves for the meaningless but necessary rites of false jovialities and ill-considered gifts.”
– Peter Dickinson

“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.”
– Phillips Brook

“O Holy Night! The stars are brightly shining, it is the night of the dear Savior’s birth.”
– Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure

“Christmas itself may be called into question, If carried so far it creates indigestion.”
– Ralph Bergengren

“Eternal God, this holy night is radiant with the brilliance of your one true light. May that light illuminate our hearts and shine in our words and deeds. May the hope, the peace, the joy, and the love represented by the birth in Bethlehem this night fill our lives and become part of all that we say and do. May we share the divine life of your son Jesus Christ, even as he humbled himself to share our humanity. Amen.”
– Rev. Richard J. Fairchild

“We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star.”
– Reverend John Henry Hopkins, Jr.

“Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.”
– Richard Crashaw

“Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.”
– Richard Lamm

“Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.”
– Robert Lynd

“There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it’s Christmas, there are other people who want to strangle you just because its Christmas.”
– Robert Lynd

“You know you’re getting old, when Santa starts looking younger”
– Robert Paul

“Even before Christmas has said Hello, it’s saying ‘Buy Buy’”
– Robert Paul

“The event of Christ is the only event in human history that promises relocation and centering, meaning and purpose. This promise and its fulfillment evoke passionate and heartfelt praise and thanks, especially for those aware of their own brokenness and the healing which Christ brings into their lives.”
– Robert Webber

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