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

I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant 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.
Charles Dickens

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:  the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Burton Hillis

The magi, as you know, were wise men - wonderfuly wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
O. Henry

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.
Bill Keane’s "Family Circus"

So if a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas, some quiet morning, the touch will take.
Harry Reasoner

Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you ... to remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old ... Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world ... stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death... Then you can keep Christmas! But you can never keep it alone.
Henry van Dyke

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.
Eva Logue

A Christmas Blessing
During this Christmas season,
May you be blessed
With the spirit of the season,
    which is peace,
The gladness of the season,
    which is hope,
And the heart of the season,
    which is love

Somehow, not only for Christmas
    But all the long year through,
The joy that you give to others
    Is the joy that comes back to you.
And the more you spend in blessing
    The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing
    Returns to you glad.
John Greenleaf Whittier

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma Bombeck

A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;
He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here.
Then he's thinking more of others than
he's thought the months before,
And the laughter of his children is a joy
worth toiling for.
He is less a selfish creature than at any
other time;
When the Christmas spirit rules him, he
comes close to the sublime.
Edgar Guest

It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One!
Charles Dickens

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
Charles Schulz

At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
Thomas Tusser, 16th century
   
And is it true? And is it true,
This most tremendous tale of all,
Seen in a stained-glass window's hue,
A Baby in an in ox's stall?
The Maker of the stars and sea
Became a Child on earth for me?
Sir John Betjeman, 1954

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on Earth, good will to men!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
- Sir Walter Scott

The feet of the humblest may walk
    in the field
Where the feet of the Holiest trod,
This, then, is the marvel
    to mortals revealed.
- Phillips Brooks

Good news from heaven the angels
    bring,
Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
To us this day a child is given,
To crown us with the joy of heaven.
- Martin Luther

The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap,
His hair was like a light.
(O weary, weary was the world,
But here is all aright.)

The Christ-child stood at Mary's knee,
His hair was like a crown,
And all the flowers looked up at Him
And all the stars looked down.
- G. K. Chesterton