{"id":5683,"date":"2015-12-26T10:26:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T15:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=5683"},"modified":"2015-12-26T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T15:27:07","slug":"christmas-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=5683","title":{"rendered":"christmas quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"photo-1445462195935-9bf593d52c84\"<\/a>Letting the season last\u2026 reflecting on the meaning and the fun\u2026<\/p>\n

“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”<\/em> \u2015 Bob Hope<\/p>\n

“Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.\u201d<\/em> \u2014 Janice Maeditere<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/em> \u2014 Andy Rooney<\/p>\n

“Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.”<\/em> \u2014 J. C. Penney<\/p>\n

\u201cChristmas 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.\u201d<\/em> \u2015 Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n

\u201cOh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer… Who’d have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?\u201d<\/em> \u2015 Bill Watterson<\/p>\n

“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.<\/em>\u201d \u2014 Dale Evans<\/p>\n

“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.”<\/em> \u2014 Dr. Seuss<\/p>\n

\u201cI once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it, saying, ‘Toys not included.\u2019 \u201d<\/em> \u2014 Bernard Manning<\/p>\n

\u201cHe who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree.\u201d<\/em> \u2014 Charlotte Carpenter<\/p>\n

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”<\/em> \u2014 Charles Dickens<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.\u201d<\/em> \u2014 George Carlin<\/p>\n

\u201cWant to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.\u201d<\/em> \u2015 Steve Maraboli<\/p>\n

“Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt in amazement. Their night watch had been interrupted by an explosion of light from heaven and a symphony of angels. God goes to those who have time to hear him\u2013and so on this cloudless night he went to simple shepherds.”<\/em> \u2014 Max Lucado<\/p>\n

\u201cLook for Christ and you will find Him. And with Him, everything else.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n

And a portion of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow\u2019s message, to be repeated often and soon:<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd in despair I bowed my head;<\/em>
\n\u2018There is no peace on earth,\u2019 I said;<\/em>
\n\u2018For hate is strong,<\/em>
\nAnd mocks the song<\/em>
\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:<\/em>
\n\u2018God is not dead, nor doth he sleep!<\/em>
\nThe Wrong shall fail,<\/em>
\nthe Right prevail,<\/em>
\nWith peace on earth, good-will to men!\u2019 \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

May the truths of the season stay with us all year long.<\/p>\n

Respectfully\u2026
\nAR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Letting the season last\u2026 reflecting on the meaning and the fun\u2026 “My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?” \u2015 Bob Hope “Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our … <\/p>\n

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