Best Merry Christmas + Quotes...

Best Merry Christmas + Quotes...

Christmas, Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus. The English term Christmas (“mass on Christ’s day”) is of fairly recent origin. The earlier term Yule may have derived from the Germanic jōl or the Anglo-Saxon geōl, which referred to the feast of the winter solstice. The corresponding terms in other languages—Navidad in Spanish, Natale in Italian, Noël in French—all probably denote nativity. The German word Weihnachten denotes “hallowed night.” Since the early 20th century, Christmas has also been a secular family holiday, observed by Christians and non-Christians alike, devoid of Christian elements, and marked by an increasingly elaborate exchange of gifts. In this secular Christmas celebration, a mythical figure named Santa Claus plays the pivotal role.

The early Christian community distinguished between the identification of the date of Jesus’ birth and the liturgical celebration of that event. The actual observance of the day of Jesus’ birth was long in coming. In particular, during the first two centuries of Christianity there was strong opposition to recognizing birthdays of martyrs or, for that matter, of Jesus. Numerous Church Fathers offered sarcastic comments about the pagan custom of celebrating birthdays when, in fact, saints and martyrs should be honoured on the days of their martyrdom—their true “birthdays,” from the church’s perspective.

Christmas is celebrated on 25 December. It is a holiday to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, who, according to the Christian religion, is the son of God. The name is a joining of “Christ” and “mass” which means the holy mass (supper, celebration or festival) of Christ.

 

 Happy Merry Christmas...

 

 

• "Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer—home." —W. J. Tucker

 

• "He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree." —Roy L. Smith

 

• "Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas." —Dale Evans 

 

• The best way to celebrate the holidays is with great food and even better company." —Ina Garten

 

• "At Christmas, all roads lead home." —Marjorie Holmes

 

• "Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together." —Rosie Thomas 

 

• "The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money. There's a kind of glory to them when they're all lit up that exceeds anything all the money in the world could buy." –Andy Rooney

 

• "Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed." —Ann Garnett Schultz

 

• "Christmas won't be the same without you. Christmas won't be the same if you go. You're all I need to see, standing by my Christmas tree. 'Cause Christmas won't be the same without you." —"Christmas Won't be the Same Without You"

 

• "I won't ask for much this Christmas. I won't even wish for snow. And I'm just gonna keep on waiting, underneath the mistletoe." —"All I want for Christmas is You"

 

• "Holidays are joyful, there's always something new. But everyday's a holiday, when I'm near to you." —"Merry Christmas, Darling"

 

• "Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas." —Peg Bracken 

 

• "Christmas Eve will find me, where the love-light gleams. I'll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams." —"I'll be Home for Christmas"

 

• "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know. Where the treetops glisten and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow." —"White Christmas"

 

• "Oh, the fire is slowly dying. And, my dear, we're still goodbye-ing. But as long as you love me so, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow." —"Let it Snow

 

• "A very Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Let's hope it's a good one, without any fear." —"Happy Xmas (War is Over)"

 

•  "Remember, no man is a failure who has friends." —Clarence 

 

• "There must have been some magic in that old silk hat they found, for when they placed it on his head, he began to dance around!" —"Frosty the Snowman"

 

• "Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Let your heart be light. From now on, your troubles will be out of sight." —"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"

 

• "Christmas is a togethery sort of holiday. That's my favorite kind." —A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

 

• "Nothing seems to bring people together like Christmas." —Steven Dodrill

 

• "Christmas isn't a date on a calendar: It's a feeling in the heart." —Toni Sorenson

 

• "Even as an adult, I still find it hard to sleep on Christmas Eve." —Carrie Latet

 

•  "I left Santa gluten-free cookies and organic soy milk, and he put a solar panel in my stocking." —Unknown

 

• "Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind." —Mary Ellen Chase

 

• "Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness." —Mo Rocca

 

• "Remember this December that love weighs more than gold." —Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

 

• "Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling." —Edna Ferber

 

• "Christmas is not a story of hope. It is hope." —Craig D. Lounsbrough

 

• "Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence." —Joan Mills

 

• "It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air." —W. T. Ellis

 

• "Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand." —Dr. Seuss

 

• "There's no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor's yard." —Dan Florenc

 

• "Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard." —Andy Borowitz

 

• "Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year." —Victor Borge

 

• "That's what Christmas memories are made from. They're not planned, they're not scheduled, nobody puts them in their Blackberry—they just happen." —Kelly Finch (from Deck the Halls)

 

• "Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice." —Dave Barry

 

• "A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together." —Garrison Keillor

 

•  "Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: peace on earth, goodwill to men, and batteries not included." —Unknown

 

• "I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can't wait to exchange." —Henny Youngma

 

• "Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you." —David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

 

• "The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear." —Buddy the Elf (from Elf)

 

• "Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas." —Stephen Graham Jones

 

• "You're skipping Christmas! Isn't that against the law?" —Spike Frohmeyer (from Christmas With the Kranks)

 

• "Good tidings we bring to you and your kin. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." —"We Wish You a Merry Christmas"

 

• "O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, how faithful are thy branches?" —"O Christmas Tree"

 

• "Jingle Bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way! Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh." —"Jingle Bells"

 

• "Come and trim my Christmas tree with some decorations bought at Tiffany. I really do believe in you—let's see if you believe in me." —"Santa Baby"

 

• "Joy to the world, the Lord is come. Let earth receive her King." —"Joy to the World

 

• "Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us." —David Camero

 

• "Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance—each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon." —Deborah Whipp

 

•  "Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money." —Unknown

 

• "Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection." —Pinda

  

• "Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving." —B.C. Forbes

 

• "Mankind is a great, an immense family…This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas." —Pope John XXIII

 

• "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…." —Taylor Caldwel

 

• "What is Christmas? It is the tenderness of the past, courage for the present, and hope for the future." —Agnes M. Pahro

 

• "Christmas may be a day of feasting or of prayer, but always, it will be a day of remembrance—a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved." —Augusta E. Randel

 

• "The joy of brightening other lives becomes, for us, the magic of the holidays." —W. C. Jone

 

• "One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don't clean it up too quickly." —Andy Rooney

 

• "The idea of Christmas can't be more important than the people you share Christmas with."—Candice Cameron Buré, Christmas on Candy Cane Lane

 

• "The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other." —Burton Hill

 

• "As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same." —Donald E. Westlak

 

• "Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts." —Janice Maediter

  

• "We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all." —Joanna Gaines

 

• "I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness." —Carrie Fisher

 

• "When we remember a special Christmas, it is not the presents that made it special, but the laughter, the feeling of love, and the togetherness of friends and family that made that Christmas special." —Catherine Pulsife

 

• "Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see." —Chris Van Allsburg 

 

• "Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it—you feel it, you know it, you believe it." —Kevin Alan Milne

 

• "The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood." —Richard Paul Evan

  

• "As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving." —Gordon B. Hinckley

 

• "Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone." —Charles M. Schulz

 

• "Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas." —Dale Evan

  

• "When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things—not the great occasions—give off the greatest glow of happiness." —Bob Hope

 

• "It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you." —Mother Teresa

 

• "The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." —C.S. Lewis

 

• "It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving." —Mother Theresa

 

• "Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know." —Catherine Hicks

 

• "Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world." —C.S. Lewis

  

• "We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly: Let Him rejoice." —Pope Paul VI

  

• "Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man." —Robert Hughes

 

• "All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ." —David Jeremiah

  

• "For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself." —Charles Dickens

 

• "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." —Romans 

 

• "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” —James 

 

• "You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell Him you have received His Christmas gift." —John R. Rice

  

• "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." —Rev. Richard J. Fairchild

 

• "There are three stages of man: He believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus." —Bob Phillips

 

• "I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, 'Toys not included.'" —Bernard Manning

 

• "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." —George Burns

 

• "I haven't taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin." —Winston Spear

 

• "Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas." —Kin Hubbard

 

• "Christmas, here again. Let us raise a loving cup; peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up." —Wendy Cope

 

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