2,024 Quotes About Christmas

I eventually came across what looked like tiny footprints in the snow

Christmas dawned clear and cold; lovely weather for killing Germans, although the thought seemed somewhat at variance with the spirit of the day.

Why was God born in a borrowed barn to two impoverished teenagers in a town far off the pages of commerce and industry? Because true greatness will always shed the mantel of privilege in order to meet us in the muck of our lives.

Throughout our lifetime many people come ‘to’ us. But if they haven’t come ‘for’ us the coming doesn’t matter. And I would have us carefully consider that Christmas is God perfectly doing both.

CHRISTMAS EVE: There’s a fire blazing in the fireplace, food enough for five thousand, and a new TV as big as Wyoming tuned to a football game no one cares about.

It's not about presents but it is about your presence. Therein lies the spirit of the holiday season.

Christmas and the others can end up making you sad, because you know you should be happy.

After that I went home and Sally put what was left of me to bed; next day, being a Christian family, we saluted the happy morn with the Hell and Hades of a row because I wouldn't get up and go to early service, my sister being quite determined that even if I didn't get up. I shouldn't sleep.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood