“The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be that his head wasn’t screwed on quite right.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.”
– Dr. Suess

“Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.”
– Lenora Mattingly Weber

“It is not even the beginning of Christmas unless it is Christmas in the heart.”
– Richard Roberts

“Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.”
– Charlotte Carpenter

“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”
– W. T. Ellis

“Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.”
– Pope John XXIII

“The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has no Christmas in his heart.”
– Helen Keller

“Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.”
– Bess Streeter Aldrich

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
– Charles Dickens, Ebeneezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol

“They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart.”
– Mrs. Paul M. Ell

“Until one feels the spirit of Christmas, there is no Christmas. All else is outward display-so much tinsel and decorations. For it isn’t the holly, it isn’t the snow. It isn’t the tree not the firelight’s glow. It’s the warmth that comes to the hearts of men when the Christmas spirit returns again.”
— Anonymous

“Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It’s lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It’s higher thought and a greater plan. It’s glorious dream in the soul of man.”
– Wilfred A. Peterson (The Art of Living)

“This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ.”
— Frank McKibben

“Christmas … is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart…”
– Freya Stark

“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.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.”
– Bill McKibben

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