- Bess Streeter Aldrich, Song of Years
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.
- Memory Awakens Hope, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Seek That Which Is Above,1986
Advent is concerned with that very connection between memory and hope which is so necessary to man. Advent’s intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church’s year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart’s memory so that it can discern the star of hope.…
It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.
- Bill McKibben Author, Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case For a More Joyful Christmas
There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
These Christmas family quotes express what a thousand-word speech cannot. So go ahead and wish everyone a meaningful 'Merry Christmas' with more family quotes from
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