Christmas stories

“WHEN Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber”.
Thus begins the 2nd chapter of the world’s most famous Christmas story, ”A Christmas Carol”, by Charles Dickens.
Christmas stories are important tools for spreading Christmas cheer. Actually it is said that Charles Dickens’ story, “A Christmas Carol”, saved Christmas as we know it today. When Charles Dickens wrote his story in the 18th century, the celebration of Xmas was on the wane. But Dickens used his story to describe Christmas as a time of joy, a time when people respect each other, and a time when everything is all right.
People liked to hear this story, and in the following years, happy Christmas stories became more and more popular together with the decorated Christmas tree, Christmas gifts, and the overall Christmas spirit. If you like christmas stories, you can print and read the christmas stories from this page.

Best Christmas Quotes

Lenora Mattingly Weber, Extension
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.

Louisa May Alcott
The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.

Charles N. Barnard
The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... 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.

W. J. Tucker, Pulpit Preaching
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

Mary Ellen Chase
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Dr. Seuss
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?

G. K. Chesterton
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?

Dale Evans
Christmas, my child, is love in action.

Andy Rooney
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.

Hugh Downs
Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget.

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

Marjorie Holmes
At Christmas, all roads lead home.


Funny Merry Xmas Sayings and Quotes:
1. We just “popped” in to wish you a Merry Christmas.
2. Wishing you a season filled with sweetness.
3. Wishing you a wonderful Christmas, from your crummy neighbors
4. Believe in Santa…just beclause!
5. Enjoy the holly days!
6. Be jolly by golly.
7. Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle.
8. You don’t need Visa when you got Santa!
9. Winter is the season to be sneezin’…
10. Sugar and Spice makes Christmas Nice!
11. If you don’t believe, you won’t receive!
12. Lighten up. It’s Christmas!
13. Three wonderful little words at Christmas…no assembly required!
14. Meo-wy Christ-mouse!
15. Christmas prayer: Guardian angel pure and bright…please lead Santa here tonight.
16. Christmas is love, with all the trimmings…
17. Christmas Cheer Recipe: Combine loads of good wishes, heart full of love and armfuls of hugs. Sprinkle with laughter and garnish with mistletoe. Top off with presents. Serves everyone!
18. Love was born on Christmas morn.
19. May all your days be happy and bright and may all your Christmases be white.
20. Christmas cookies and happy hearts, this is how the holiday starts.


Funny Merry Xmas Sayings and Quotes:

• May you have the gift of faith, the blessing of hope and the peace of His love at Christmas and always
• Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year.
• Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for a Happy New Year
• Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
• Peace On Earth
• Season’s Greetings and best wishes for the New Year
• There is no time more fitting to say "Thank You" and to wish you a Happy Holiday Season and a New Year of health, happiness and prosperity.
• To wish you the special gifts of this holiday season - Peace, Joy and Lasting Happiness.
• Warmest thoughts and best wishes for a wonderful Holiday and a Happy New Year.
• Holiday Greetings and Best Wishes for a New Year of Happiness in a world of peace.
• Holiday Greetings!. . . celebrate each day.
• Christmas Greetings! Celebrate the reason for the season.

• Greetings of the Season and Best Wishes for the New Year
• The gift of love. The gift of peace. The gift of happiness. May all these be yours at Christmas.
• Best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year
• Let the spirit of love gently fill our hearts and homes. In this loveliest of seasons may you find many reasons for happiness.
• May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! 
• May peace, love and prosperity follow you always.
• May the Blessings of Christmas be with you today and always.
• Merry Christmas May God bless you richly throughout this holiday season.
• Peace On Earth and best wishes throughout the New Year
• May the Good Lord fulfill you with His promises and bestow on you His many blessings .

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child." ~ Erma Bombeck (1927-1996), American author and humorist. Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas." ~ Peg Bracken. 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." ~ Phillips Brooks (1835-93), American Episcopal bishop, wrote 'O Little Town of Bethlehem'. Quotes - words of wisdom Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes." ~ Joan Winmill Brown, American author and editor. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone." ~ Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985), English novelist. Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree." ~ Charlotte Carpenter. There are no strangers on Christmas Eve." ~ Adele Comandini and Edward Sutherland. Michael O'Brien (Charles Winninger), Beyond Tomorrow, after proposing that the partners invite three strangers to dinner (1940). To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world." ~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927). Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Christmas is for whoever is old enough to have denied the unquenchable spirit of man." ~ Margaret Cousins (1905- ), senior editor Doubleday Publishing Company. Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'." ~ Bing Crosby (1904-1977), American singer and film actor. It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one's fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit." ~ Isabel Currier. I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." ~ Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English author. From 'A Christmas Carol'. Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget." ~ Hugh Downs (1921- ), American newscaster. They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart." ~ Mrs. Paul M. Ell. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air." ~ W. T. Ellis Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers. Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal." ~ Lenore Hershey My first copies of Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn still have some blue-spruce needles scattered in the pages. They smell of Christmas still." ~ Charlton Heston (1923- ), American film actor. At Christmas, all roads lead home." ~ Marjorie Holmes, American writer. It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart." ~ Marjorie Holmes, American writer. My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?" ~ Bob Hope, American film actor and comedian. When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness." ~ Bob Hope, American film actor and comedian. Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart." ~ Washington Irving (1783-1859), American short-story writer and essayist. The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas." ~ W. C. Jones A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together." ~ Garrison Keillor (1942-), American author. 'Exiles,' Leaving Home (1987). Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive." ~ Robert Lynd (1892-1970), American sociologist.

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 (1881-1954), American author, 'Song of Years'. 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 I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: 'Why this is Christmas Day!'" ~ Ray Stannard Baker, pseud. David Grayson (1870-1946), American author, journalist. The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!" ~ Charles N. Barnard, American author, travel writer. Quotes makes you think Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." ~ Hamilton Wright Mabie (1845-1916), American author, essayist and critic. I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month." ~ Harlan Miller Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence." ~ Joan Mills Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body." ~ Garry Moore What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace." ~ Agnes M. Pahro Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful." ~ Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), American Protestant religious leader, author. I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world." ~ Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), American Protestant religious leader, author. Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas." ~ Pope John XXIII 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." ~ Andy Rooney (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist. The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature." ~ Andy Rooney (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist. Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved." ~ Augusta E. Rundell Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone." ~ Charles Schulz (1922-2000), American cartoonist 'Peanuts'. As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is." ~ Eric Sevareid (1912-1992), American newscaster. Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more." ~ Dr. Seuss (1904-1991), American author of children's books. From 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas'. Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves." ~ Eric Sevareid (1912-1992), American newscaster. 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." ~ Ralph Sockman (1889-1970), American religious leader. He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree." ~ Sunshine Magazine Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ Margaret Thatcher (1925- ), English political leader. At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." ~ Thomas Tusser (c. 1515-1580), author 'The Farmer's Daily Diet'. 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 (1895-1971), American author. Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone." ~ Deborah Whipp (1964-), web designer. Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall." ~ Larry Wilde, author 'The Merry Book of Christmas'. Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas." ~ Joanne Woodward (1930- ), American film actress.