Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.
Christmas Quotes
Most of the quotes on this page are not about Christmas at all. We built it from the pages on family, love and gratitude, which is what people tend to want for a card or a toast.
That makes it a long list, ordered by quality rather than by how seasonal each entry feels. If you want something that sounds like Christmas, search for it. If you want something that would be true at any family table, start here.
Love is all we have, the only way
that each can help the other.
True love is like the appearance of ghosts: everyone talks about it but few have seen it.
Jealousy is always born with love but does not always die with it.
By force you have held it; by force you are holding it; by love we ask you to hold it.
They didna speak, but they just gave one another a look, and I saw the love-light in their een.
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
If, instead of seeing faults in others we look within ourselves we are loving God.
Love only enters as a native there,
For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.
He that alone would wise and mighty be,
Commands that others love as well as he.
If we love mankind, pity them, we even wish to suffer for them.