Inspirational Quotes for Christmas

Warm your heart during the most wonderful time of the year

Merry Christmas! I hope you have a wonderful day filled with love and joy with the ones who mean the most to you. To give you a little bit of happiness to add to your stocking, I put together some inspirational Christmas quotes. Enjoy!

1. “Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” -Dale Evans

2. “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

3. “We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder

4. “What is Christmas? It is the tenderness of the past, courage for the present, and hope for the future.” -Agnes M. Pahro

5. “We send out Christmas greetings to friends and family near and far, we put up the tree in hopes Santa will arrive, but most of all we take the time to thank God for His Son.” -Kate Summers

6. “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!” -Charles Dickens

7. “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” -Norman Vincent Peale

8. “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” -Hamilton Wright Mabie

9. “A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” -Garrison Keillor

10. “Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.” -Freya Stark

11. “Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white.’” -Bing Crosby

12. “When we remember a special Christmas, it is not the presents that made it special, but the laughter, the feeling of love, and the togetherness of friends and family that made that Christmas special.” -Catherine Pulsifer

13. “Christmas is for everyone, adults and children alike. Allow this season fill your heart, and let go of the things you dislike.” -Julie Hebert

14. “Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!” -Dr. Seuss

15. “The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly, reminding us of what is worth having and what we were intended to be.” -Max Lucado

16. “Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.” -Janice Maeditere

17. “For Christmas is tradition time — traditions that recall the precious memories down the years, the sameness of them all.” -Helen Lowrie Marshall

18. “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

19. “Love the giver more than the gift.” -Brigham Young

20. “In God’s sight, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas whenever we rediscover the simplicity of His love and bow down in thankfulness and worship, where we are and whatever our circumstances.” -David Jeremiah

21. “Christmas is a magical time for both the young and old.” -Diane Cirafesi-Keszczyk

22. “Christmas is a time for families.” -Dorothy Koomson

23. “Don’t let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.” -Taylor Caldwell

24. “I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.” -Harlan Miller

25. “Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance — each beautiful, unique, and too soon gone.” -Deborah Whipp

26. “Some Christmas tree ornaments do a lot more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.” -Tom Baker

27. “Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” -Dr. Seuss

28. “Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.” -Helen Steiner Rice

29. “Christmas is a magical time whose spirit lives on in all of us no matter how old we grow.” -Sirona Knight

30. “For 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.” -Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

31. “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.” -Andy Rooney

32. “Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.” -Phillips Brooks

33. “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.” -Augusta E. Randel

34. “The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn’t matter what mood you’re in, or what kind of year you’ve had — it’s a fresh start.” -Kelly Clarkson

35. “God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If He gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.” -Pope Francis

36. “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 Bagg Taber

37. “Christmas is a special time for joy.” -Dr. James Evans McReynolds

38. “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

39. “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” -Charles M. Schulz

40. “Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” -Peg Bracken

41. “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” -Burton Hills

42. “It’s true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you’ll find you’ve created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.” -Caroline Kennedy

43. “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 Severeid

44. “Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” -Alexander Smith

45. “The kind of love that was so intently demonstrated at Christmas is truly amazing and life changing.” -Jason C. Dukes

46. “Christmas Eve is my favorite…I think the anticipation is more fun than anything else. I kind of lost that. The idea that something — food, traditions, an arbitrary date on the calendar — can be special because we decide it should be. We make it special. Not just for ourselves, but for others.” -Kiersten White

47. “Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.” -Norman Vincent Peale

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

49. “Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.” -Richelle E. Goodrich

50. “The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.” -Henry David Thoreau

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