For Christmas is tradition time—Traditions that recallThe precious memories down the years,The sameness of them all.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,I notice this, each year I live;I always like the gifts I get,But how I love the gifts I give!

Let us have music for Christmas…Sound the trumpet of joy and rebirth;Let each of us try, with a song in our hearts,To bring peace to men on earth.

There is no greater sound in the world than the rustle of Santa's sleigh bells on Christmas Eve.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If He gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent...

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

City sidewalksBusy sidewalksDressed in holiday styleIn the airThere's a feelingOf Christmas.

Oh the weather outside is frightful,But the fire is so delightful,And since we've no place to go,Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

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

The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin—inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.

Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard, or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room.

Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

God goes to those who have time to hear him—and so on this cloudless night he went to simple shepherds.

Christmas gives us an opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us.

Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.

Santa Claus is anyone who loves another and seeks to make them happy; who gives himself by thought or word or deed in every gift that he bestows.

HELEN LOWRIE MARSHALL

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