The document contains several quotes and passages about the meaning and spirit of Christmas. It discusses Christmas as a time for fellowship with family, expressing true sentiments, and opening one's heart to love. Several quotes emphasize opening gifts of forgiveness, tolerance and charity instead of physical presents. The overall message is that Christmas is a time for spreading love, joy, and goodwill.
2. May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! ~Author Unknown
3. Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! ~Hamilton Wright Mabie
4. I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. ~Harlan Miller
5. Sing hey! Sing hey! For Christmas Day; Twine mistletoe and holly. For a friendship glows In winter snows, And so let's all be jolly! ~Author Unknown
6. Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. - Oren Arnold
7. The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~Burton Hillis
8. For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. ~W.J. Ronald Tucker
9. I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. ~Charles Dickens
10. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. ~W.T. Ellis
11. Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself. ~Francis C. Farley
12. Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. ~Author unknown
15. Knowing You… Christmas season fills our hearts with joy; Bright, happy days bring special kinds of pleasure. We're wrapped in the excitement of it all, The sights, the sounds, the smells and the tastes we treasure. Yet when we have some quiet time to think About our finest blessings all year through, We focus on our Friends, And appreciate the gift of knowing you!