Day 18 of Quotes - Explaining Christmas (only it's too big!)

 A mixed bunch of quotes today! No theme, just quotes!

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Alexander Smith

The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

Mark Twain

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas.

Amy Grant

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

G.K. Chesterton

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.

J.L.W. Brooks

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.

Charles Dickens

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

Norman Vincent Peale

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood

Richard Paul Evans

It is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

Mother Teresa

Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.

William Parks

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.

Agnes M Pharo

Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas everyday.

Helen Steiner Rice

Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.

Dr. Seuss

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

Gladys Taber

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Washington Irving

Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

Pope John XXIII

And I'll leave you with this final - anonymous - quote, by which I live my life:

May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.