Charles Dickens

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 [...]

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Katherine Whitehorn

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. (Katherine Whitehorn, British journalist and writer)

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Dale Evans Rogers

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas. (Dale Evans Rogers, American Singer, known as the “Queen of the West”)

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Don Cupitt

Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity! (Don Cupitt, modern day philosopher)

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Maurice Freehill

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? (Maurice Freehill)

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God’s coming at Christmas that we no longer feel the shiver of fear that God’s coming should arouse in us. We are indifferent to the message, taking only the pleasant and agreeable out of it and forgetting the serious aspect, that the [...]

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Dr. Seuss

“Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more.” (Dr. Seuss, the Grinch)

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Robert Lynd

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the  few occasions on which men become entirely alive. (Robert Lynd, American sociologist)

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Robert Ingersoll

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian – it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural. (Robert Ingersoll, atheist)

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