These are the candles as used for the prompts for this series of stories (as suggested by the moderator of the Livejournal 'prowlxjazz' community, PuraJazzBot)
HOPE:
"Memory awakens hope. It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope" – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
"What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future" – Agnes M. Pharo
"I like the Christmas that fulfills my needs ... to be forgiven from greed and selfishness, to fill my empty soul with peace and compassion, for hope and faith and charity, for myself renewed and hope restored in an erring world" – Robert D. Wigert
PEACE:
"May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!" – Author Unknown
"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" – Calvin Coolidge
"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them" – Isaiah 11: 6
JOY:
"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!" – Charles Dickens
"Joy is the true gift of Christmas, not the expensive gifts that call for time and money. We can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little help, forgiveness. And the joy we give will certainly come back to us" – Pope Benedict XVI
"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning" – Psalms 30:5
LOVE:
"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen" – Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby
"Love is the strongest thing in the world - stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death - and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love" – Henry Van Dyke
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" – John 15:13