Merry Christmas

“The beauty of the star [in the east] smote Sam’s heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him.”  J.R.R. Tolkien
“The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.”  J.R.R. Tolkien

“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”  Roy L. Smith

“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable 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, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.”  ~Charles Dickens

“There has been only one Christmas – the rest are anniversaries.”  ~W.J. Cameron