Merry Christmas / Happy Hannukah

[Kit Sober]

Some nice Christmas wishes

The birth of Jesus is the sunrise in the Bible.

Henry Van Dyke

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The Light that shines from the humble manger is strong enough to lighten our way to the end of our days.

Vita-Rays

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I am wishing for you this day a happy Christmas. I would send you those gifts which are beyond price, outlast time, and bridge all space. I wish you all laughter and pure joy, a merry heart and a clear conscience, and love which thinks no evil, is not easily provoked, and seeks not its own; the fragrance of flowers, the sweet associations of holly and mistletoe and fir, the memory of deep woods, of peaceful hills, and of the mantling snow, which guards the sleep of all God's creatures. I wish that the spirit of Christmastide may draw you into companionship with him who giveth all. Come, let us adore him.

Bishop Remington

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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Every little child in all the world has been a little safer since the coming of the Child of Bethlehem.

Roy Smith

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Then let every heart keep Christmas within.

Christ's pity for sorrow,

Christ's hatred for sin,

Christ's care for the weakest,

Christ's courage for right.

Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight!

Phillips Brooks

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Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.

Religious Telescope

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I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys...And so as Tiny Tim said: "A merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us, every one."

Charles Dickens

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Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Mary Ellen Chase

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When we celebrate Christmas we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies in to being, limited all power, and for love of us came to us in the powerless body of a human baby.

Madeline L’Engle

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The manger is Heaven, yes, greater than Heaven. Heaven is the handiwork of this child.

Agathias Scholasticus

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Welcome, all wonders in one sight!

Eternity shut in a span.

Summer in winter. Day in night.

Heaven in earth, and God in Man.

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth

Lifts earth to heaven, and stoops heaven to earth.

Richard Crashaw

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The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.

Ralph Stockman

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The time draws near the birth of Christ:

The moon is hid; the night is still;

The Christmas bells from hill to hill

Answer each other in the mist.

Alfred Tennyson