Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
Surprising Christmas Greeting Card quotations
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!
Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.
O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!
The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.
Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you
Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas.
Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.
Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.
That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.
Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?
I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas.
Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.