John Kendrick Bangs Quotes

The Christmas spirit - love - changes hearts and lives.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Christmas is not a time nor 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.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.

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.

Christmas has a way of bringing out the best in everyone

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season.

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

Anybody who knows me knows that I'm just here to put a smile on people's faces.

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

I don't do anything malicious or anything in a negative manner. I'm all about positivity and making people smile is positive.