50+ Christmas Quotes

1. 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
2. The main reason Santa is so jolly is that he knows where all the bad girls live.  George Carlin
3. How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts! Benjamin Franklin
4. Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.  Ruth Carter Stapleton
5. Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. Janice Maeditere
6. The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing others’ loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays.” W.C. Jones
7. I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.Charles Dickens
8. Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime. Laura Ingalls Wilder
9. Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. Mary Ellen Chase
10. Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings, exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united. Norman Vincent Peale
11. Each sight, each sound of Christmas And fragrances sublime Make hearts and faces happy This glorious Christmastime. Carice Williams
12. Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merrymaking. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.  J. C. Penney
13. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas; Soon the bells will start, And the thing that will make them ring Is the carol that you sing Right within your heart. Meredith Willson
14. Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. Washington Irving
15. Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves. Eric Sevareid
16. Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. Charles M. Schulz
17. Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself. Francis C. Farley
18. The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. Burton Hillis
19. 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. Carrie Fisher
20. Christmas now surrounds us, Happiness is everywhere Our hands are busy with many tasks As carols fill the air.  Shirley Sallay
21. Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. Norman Vincent Peale
22. He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. Roy L. Smith
23. Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words. Harlan Miller
24. Christmas, my child, is love in action. Dale Evans
25. Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. Hamilton Wright Mabie
26. Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given–when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes. Joan Winmill Brown
27. I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays – let them overtake me unexpectedly – waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: ‘Why this is Christmas Day! David Grayson
28. Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. Peg Bracken
29. Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. Charles Schulz
30. Christmas gift suggestions: to your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.  Oren Arnold
31. Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends. Margaret Thatcher
32. Christmas is the day that holds all time together. Alexander Smith
33. Always winter but never Christmas. C.S. Lewis
34. Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. Phillips Brooks
35. Until one feels the spirit of Christmas, there is no Christmas. All else is outward display–so much tinsel and decorations. For it isn’t the holly, it isn’t the snow. It isn’t the tree not the firelight’s glow. It’s the warmth that comes to the hearts of men when the Christmas spirit returns again. Unknown
36. My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? Bob Hope
37. Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. Hamilton Wright Mabie
38. Are you willing to believe that 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? Then you can keep Christmas. Henry Van Dyke
39. Every gift which is given, even though is small, is, in reality, great, if it is given with affection. Pindar
40. The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.  Richard Paul Evans
41. Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. Norman Peale
42. A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. Garrison Keillor
43. I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world. Norman Vincent Peale
44. Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you. Steve Maraboli
45. Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. Lucinda Franks
46. At Christmas, all roads lead home. Marjorie Holmes
47. Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves. Eric Sevareid
48. Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. Pope John XXIII
49. I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses. Taylor Caldwell
50. The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. Burton Hills
51. When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness. Bob Hope

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