Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes

I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.

I love Christmas. I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super-early' guy.

Millions of angels are at God's command.

'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you.

I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!

Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

In this mirror, I am enclosed a live and real as you. Imagine angels and not like the reflections.

All God's angels come to us disguised.

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

I prefer Christmas, which is everybody's holiday. It's just my nature. I don't like to be zeroed in on en masse.

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant 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.

Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels.

We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.

When I was little, I went to a Catholic school and was required to go to church every morning and with my parents on Sundays, so I spent a lot of time sitting on a wooden pew. Angels are sort of a relief. If you're looking around, the other imagery is so dark and heavy. Looking at the beautifully rendered pictures of angels was more uplifting.

Could we forbear dispute, and practice love, We should agree as angels do above. Where love presides, not vice alone does find, No entrance there, hut virtues stay behind: Both faith, and hope, and all the meaner train, Of mortal virtues, at the door remain. Love only enters as a native there, For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.

Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.

Christmas has a way of bringing out the best in everyone

And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.

In that Holy Place where you tell Him everything and he understands; there are angels who stand in wait to hear his every command. How may they serve you and increase your joy?

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.