Christmas Quotes for 2010

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most. - Ruth Carter Stapleton

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. - Washington Irving

And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, Lying in a manger. - St. Luke ii

A good conscience is a continual Christmas. - Benjamin Franklin

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

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own. - Ethel Merman

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. - Lucinda Franks

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

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. - Stephen Leacock

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

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 an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it "white". - Bing Crosby

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

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, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. - Mary Ellen Chase

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles. - Unknown