Christmas Day 2011 - Christmas Greetings & Wallpapers | Christmas Day Quotes

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ,celebrated generally on December 25 as a religious and cultural holiday by billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it closes the Advent season and initiates the twelve days of Christmastide. Christmas is a civil holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians, and is an integral part of the Christmas and holiday season.

The precise day of Jesus’ birth, which historians place between 7 and 2 BC, is unknown. In the early-to-mid 4th century, the Western Christian Church first placed Christmas on December 25, a date later adopted also in the East.Theories advanced to explain that choice include that it falls exactly nine months after the Christian celebration of the conception of Jesus, or that it was selected to coincide with either the date of the Roman winter solsticeor of some ancient winter festival.

In many parts of the world, Christmas is the day when people celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem two thousand years ago. People who remember Christmas as a religious holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus and his coming into this world. To them, he recognized that God's Son and Savior of the world. According to the Bible was Jesus born in a manger, because there was no place for him and his parents, Mary and Joseph, in an inn.

Christmas Day enjoys on 25 december.Today, people often go to church, organizing family gatherings, and decorate their homes and businesses (real or artificial Christmas trees). People feel that giving spirit and donate time and money to good causes, or provide volunteer service to the needy. Christmas is also celebrated as a secular holiday, when parents and children talk about Santa Claus and Rudolf the red nose reindeer.

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Christmas Day Beautiful Quotes

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.
Carol Nelson
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It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
W. T. Ellis
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He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith
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Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.
W.J. Cameron
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I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on Earth, good will to men!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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
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Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth,
And there He lives and dies.
Alfred Noyes
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For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.
Loring A. Schuler
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This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
Taylor Caldwell
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'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;
'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year.
Walter Scott
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May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!
Author Unknown
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens
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It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
W.T. Ellis
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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
Katharine Whitehorn
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Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm
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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself...
Norman Wesley Brooks