The Spirit of Christmas

In every family a set of Christmas traditions grows over time, in which the years are marked and small joys take on a special private meaning. Time add layer upon layer of meaning, and the Christmas spirit is coaxed along until it envelops the house in its wondrous warmth. The great charm of the season is that it is not a particular place or time but a spirit of warmth, generosity, and good will that is always welcome everywhere.

From the pages of The Heart of Christmas by Victoria Magazine Editors

I have often thought… it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the Middle of Winter.

— Joseph Addison, The Spectator

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

— Thomas S. Monson