Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.

Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock, ends at 3.30 P.M. They have six weeks' holiday during the summer, two weeks' holiday at Easter and at Christmas. Yes, they don't just work when they're at school, but even so, compared to a lot of other jobs, it's not that tough.

Every year around Christmas and Thanksgiving, I buy a bunch of toys for the sick children in the oncology center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. I really love giving back and putting a smile on their faces, especially during the holidays.

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

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

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. People tend to expect to spend their holidays with us, which is lovely and an expectation I carry with pride.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

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.

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.

There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart - and our neighbors as ourselves.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

God is in the details.

The Grinch may have stolen Christmas, but COVID derailed Thanksgiving... for everybody.

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family.

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.

New Year's Eve to Valentine's Day is our peak season, and in many ways, Valentine's Day is our Christmas. Everybody in the world makes the same three New Year's resolutions: health, career and money, and love.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.

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

Im the person who cries at the drop of a hat, whos always reminding everybody to be kind, whos bringing 40 people together for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had - it's a fresh start.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left.

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.

The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.

We have had the exact same meal for Thanksgiving and Christmas since I can ever remember, and it's so simple. It's just turkey and mashed potatoes and green beans and stuffing. Just the basics, but it's so good.

I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

After church on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, my family would go chop down our Christmas tree. Once it was home and placed in its stand, Mom and I would painstakingly decorate our tree. It took hours to place the tinsel, string the lights, find the perfect spot for my favorite macaroni and felt ornaments from kindergarten.

What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps.

I love Halloween. I love Thanksgiving. I love Christmas. I love New Year's.

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.

Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.

Thanksgiving and Christmas are the two times a year that usually my whole family gets together.

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.