Day 24 of Quotes - Merry Christmas

 So, this is it, folks! The final blog of the year. I wonder what our theme will be for 2021! I've enjoyed searching for different quotes about Christmas or Winter, but I feel particularly privileged to have the Christmas Eve blog to do. It's like when we take it in turns to open a door on the Advent calendar. We have a tub with our names in, and one gets picked out each time. Everyone wants to be the one who gets Christmas Eve!

I know this Christmas is not exactly as many of you have planned, but just remember why we celebrate and you'll find yourself having a better time.

Here are my 24 quotes, specially for Christmas Eve.

It was the afternoon of Christmas Eve...                 

and Scrooge was conscious of a thousand odours...

  - The Muppets Christmas Carol

Look. My lads. Dusk has fallen. The lamplighters are at work. It's Christmas Eve for certain.

  - The Muppets Christmas Carol

How silently, how silently, the wondrous gift is given,

So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of his heaven.

  - O Little Town of Bethlehem

It came upon a midnight clear,

that glorious song of old.

Of angels bending near the Earth,

to touch their harps of gold.

  - It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

What sweeter music can we bring
Than a carol, for to sing
The birth of this our heavenly King?
Awake the voice! Awake the string!

  - What Sweeter Music

Silent Night, Holy night,

All is calm, all is bright.

Round yon virgin mother and child,

Holy infant so tender and mild.

Sleep in heavenly peace.

Sleep in heavenly peace

  - Silent Night

 It was on a starry night,

When the hills were bright.

Earth lay sleeping,

Sleeping calm and still.

Then in a cattle shed,

In a manger bed.

A boy was born.

King of all the world.

  - It was on a Starry Night

Born in the night,

Mary's child.

A long way from your home.

Coming in need,

Mary's child.

Born in a borrowed room.

  - Born in the Night

O Holy Night,

The stars are brightly shining,

It is the night of the dear Saviour's birth.

  - O Holy Night

Christmas is not a time or a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill,

to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

  - Calvin Coolidge

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

  - Alexander Smith

Merry, merry Christmas,

Santa comes tonight.

With his eight reindeer

Ready for their flight.

  - Katy Renaud

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

See how the shepherds

summoned to his cradle,

Leaving their flocks,

draw nigh with lowly fear.

  - O Come All Ye Faithful

Sometimes life is not all it can be,

And here we are.

Wondering just how far this road can leave,

And here we are.

Then in the darkness shines a bright burning star,

And who we are is changing within our hearts.

One night, one moment,

And everything's changed.

  - Nativity!

Say, ye holy shepherds, say,

What your joyful news today?

Wherefore have ye left your sheep

On the lonely mountain steep?

  - See Amid the Winter's Snow

Tomorrow shall be my dancing day,

I would my true love didst so chance,

To see the legend of my play,

And call my true love to my dance.

  - Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day

Out into the moonlight came St Christopher himself, huge and gentle and with his head among the stars,

taking the stone child on his shoulders to Midnight Mass

  - The Children of Green Knowe

See him lying in a bed of straw,

A draughty stable with an open door.

Mary cradling the babe she bore,

The prince of glory when he came.

  - Calypso Carol

Now light one thousand Christmas lights,

On dark Earth here tonight.

One thousand thousand also shines,

To make the dark sky bright.

  - Now Light One Thousand Christmas Lights

Thou who wast rich beyond all splendour,
All for love's sake becamest poor;
Thrones for a manger didst surrender,
Sapphire-paved courts for stable floor.
Thou who wast rich beyond all splendour,
All for love's sake becomes poor.

  - Thou Who Wast Rich Beyond All Splendour

Shepherds, rejoice! lift up your eyes
And send your fears away;
News from the region of the skies:
Salvation's born today!

 - Shepherds, Rejoice!

Christmas is here
Bringing good cheer
To young and old
Meek and the bold

  - Carol of the Bells

May the joy of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, the worship of the wise men,

and the peace of the Christ child be yours this Christmas.

  - A Christmas Blessing

Merry Christmas, from the Crowvus Team! :)