Merry Christmas Quotes



Find the perfect words! Rather than just write Merry Christmas in your cards and gift tags for your friends using a Christmas quote or saying. After our wonderful collection of famous quotes on Christmas by noted writers, poets and celebrities and send them an unforgettable message.

  • I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. – By Charles Dickens
  • At Christmas, all roads lead home. 
  • A Christmas candle is a lovely thing. It makes no noise at all. But softly gives itself away. 
  • A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
  • 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.
Cute Merry Christmas Quotes
  • As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.
  • Ask your children two questions this Christmas. First: What do you want to give to others for Christmas? Second: What do you want for Christmas? The first fosters generosity of heart and an outward focus. The second can breed selfishness if not tempered by the first.
  • Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind. 
  • Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!
  • Christmas – that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance – a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
  • Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year. – By P.J. O’Rourke, Modern Manners
  • Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.
  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
  • 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.
  • Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home. 
  • Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
  • Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself. 
  • Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.
Christmas Greetings
  • Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. 
  • Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.
  • Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. 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.
  • Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year – and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.
  • Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. 
  • Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift- By giving, and of families united. 
  • Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money 
  • Christmas now surrounds us, Happiness is everywhere. Our hands are busy with many tasks. As carols fill the air.
  • Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. 
New Year Messages
  • Christmas, my child, is love in action. 
  • Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal. 
  • For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
  • For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind. 
  • Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. 
  • Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveler, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire- By side and his quiet home! By Charles Dickens.
  • Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay. 
  • He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree.
  • At Christmas, all roads lead home
Happy New Year Wishes
  • He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
  • 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. 
  • 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.
  • I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable 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- By up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. 
  • I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. 
  • 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!’
  • I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
  • I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow.
  • 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- By conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
  • Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for – By I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times.
  • It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart. 
New Year Quotes
  • It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
  • It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
  • It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one’s fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit.
  • Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.
  • Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. 
  • May peace be your gift for this Christmas and the blessing of the Almighty be with you and the world to help us all make this world a better place. To make it a Christmas day everyday of the year.
  • My first copies of Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn still have some blue- spruce needles scattered in the pages. They smell of Christmas still. 
  • 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? 
  • Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
  • Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. 
  • O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!  
  • Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries- By old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.
  • One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly. 
  • 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 Christmas time.
  • 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.
  • Somehow, not only for Christmas, but all the long year through, the joy that you give to others, is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing, the poor and lonely and sad, the more of your heart’s possessing, returns to you glad. By John Green leaf Whittier.
  • Something about an old- By fashioned Christmas is hard to forget.
  • The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. 
  • 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. By Phillips Brooks.
  • The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas. 
  • They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart.
  • Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included.
  • Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’. 
  • Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive. 
  • What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
  • When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness. 
 
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