| I'm betting that right about now, everyone can | | | | Carpenter |
| use some Christmas love quotes. Why? Because | | | | 8. "It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm |
| if you get caught up in the commercialization of | | | | human awareness, the reaching out of the self to |
| Christmas you might forget what the season is | | | | one's fellow man that makes giving worthy of the |
| truly about. Here are 12 Christmas love quotes to | | | | Christmas spirit." ~ Isabel Currier |
| help us remember that December isn't just about | | | | 9. "My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned |
| presents and tasty treats -- it's about the heart. | | | | or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to |
| 1. "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to | | | | think of it, why do we have to wait for |
| keep it all year." ~ Charles Dickens | | | | Christmas to do that?" ~ Bob Hope |
| 2. "Christmas is most truly Christmas when we | | | | 10. "The joy of brightening other lives, bearing |
| celebrate it by giving the light of love to those | | | | each others' burdens, easing other's loads and |
| who need it most." ~ Ruth Carter Stapleton | | | | supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous |
| 3. "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a | | | | gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas." ~ |
| state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to | | | | W. C. Jones |
| be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of | | | | 11. "I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never |
| Christmas." ~ Calvin Coolidge | | | | alone at all. And that, of course, is the message |
| 4. "This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving | | | | of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the |
| and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble | | | | night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world |
| heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the | | | | seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time |
| Christ." ~ Frank McKibben | | | | God chooses." ~ Taylor Caldwell |
| 5. "Our hearts grow tender with childhood | | | | 12. "Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a |
| memories and love of kindred, and we are better | | | | thought of greed, That it might live forevermore |
| throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a | | | | To fill our every need, That it shall not be just a |
| child again at Christmas-time." ~ Laura Ingalls | | | | day, But last a lifetime through, The miracle of |
| Wilder | | | | Christmastime That brings God close to you." ~ |
| 6. "When we were children we were grateful to | | | | Anne Schulz |
| those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. | | | | Let these words remind us of what the |
| Why are we not grateful to God for filling our | | | | Christmas season is truly about. It's not gifts and |
| stockings with legs?" ~ G.K. Chesterton | | | | parties and pretty lights. These Christmas love |
| 7. "Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your | | | | quotes remind us that the Christmas season is, at |
| heart, you won't find it under a tree." ~ Charlotte | | | | its core, about love. |