Christmas Eve

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860 - 1904

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart ... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
- Bess Streeter Aldrich, 1881 - 1954

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.
- Gladys Taber, 1899 - 1980

Think, In mounting higher,
The angels would press on us, and aspire
To drop some golden orb of perfect song
Into our deep, dear silence.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 - 1861

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
- W. T. Ellis

The earth has grown old with its burden of care
But at Christmas it always is young,
The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair
And its soul full of music breaks the air,
When the song of angels is sung.
- Phillips Brooks