There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.

– Author Bill McKibben

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

– Norman Vincent Peale

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

– Hamilton Wright Mabi

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years… Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.

– George Matthew Adams

It was always said of him, 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! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, &uot;God Bless Us, Every One!

– Charles Dickens

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

– Mary Ellen Chase

Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.

– Charles Dickens

From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.

– Emily Matthews

Somehow, not only for Christmas, But all the long year through, The joy that you give to others, Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing, The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart’s possessing, Returns to you glad.

– John Greenleaf Whittier

Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.

– Sir Walter Scott

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

– Washington Irving

Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.

– Helen Steiner Rice

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