Quotes about Christmas

Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat,Please to put a penny in the old man's hat;If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do,If you haven't got a ha'penny, God bless you!

The holly and the ivy,When they are both full grown,Of all the trees that are in the wood,The holly bears the crown:The rising of the sunAnd the running of the deer,The playing of the merry organ,Sweet singing in the choir.

Go tell it on the mountain,Over the hills and everywhere;Go tell it on the mountain,That Jesus Christ is born.

Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included.

The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world.

Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season.

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

There's such a theme when it comes to Christmas, and we're so used to hearing that theme over and over in different ways with the classic Christmas songs.

Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.