Christmas Quotes About Life

Christmas Quotes - The True Meaning Of Christmas

"This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ."

- Frank McKibben

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love."

- Hamilton Wright Mabi

"As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is."

- Eric Sevareid

"Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home."
- Carol Nelson

"Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence."
- Joan Mills

"It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air."
- William Turner Ellis

"Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts: the gift of God to man - his unspeakable gift of his son Jesus; and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies as a living sacrifice and, like the Macedonians, first give ourselves to God. No one has kept or can keep Christmas until he has had a part in this two-way transaction."

- Vance Havner

"Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first."

- George Matthew Adams

"To celebrate the heart of Christmas is to forget ourselves in the service of others."

- Henry C. Link

"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone."
- Charles Schulz

"Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive."

- Stephen Fry

"This time of year means being kind to everyone we meet, To share a smile with strangers we may pass along the street."

- Betty Black

"Christmas is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas."
- Dale Evans

"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."

- Agnes M. Pahro

"Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most."

- Ruth Carter Stapleton

"Christmas has lost its meaning for us because we have lost the spirit of expectancy. We cannot prepare for an observance. We must prepare for an experience."

- Handel H. Brown

"Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God."

- George F. McDougall

"For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind."

- Loring A. Schuler

"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind."
- Mary Ellen Chase

"Christmas is the day that holds all time together."
- Alexander Smith

"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

"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

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

"Christmas is the happiness that lights our children's eyes. Christmas is a song of bells ringing through the skies. Christmas is a time of peace, of contentment deep within, A time of love and silent hope that years will never dim."
- Sherrill Thompson

"Christmas is the time to let your heart do the thinking."
- Patricia Clafford

"Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts."
- Janice Maeditere

"Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body."
- Garry Moore

"Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority."

- William John Cameron

"Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts."
- Lenora Mattingly Weber

"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 Tabor

"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."
- Norman Wesley Brooks

"Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child."
- William Saroyan

"The Christmas spirit - love - changes hearts and lives."
- Pat Boone

"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."
- Augusta E. Rundel

Christmas Greetings Quotes

"This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone."

- Taylor Caldwell

"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

"There'll always be Christmas as long as a light glows in the window to guide folks at night, As long as a star in the heavens above, keeps shining down... there'll be Christmas and love."

- Edna Jaques

"The peace of Christmas fills our hearts, inspiring many living deeds. It takes our cares and fears away and gives the courage each one needs."
- Margaret H. Wright

"The world's alive with Christmas joy! Come join the merry throng. You'll find upon your lips a smile, within your heart a song."
- Nadine Brothers Lybarger

"I love the Christmas-tide and yet, I notice this each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, but how I love the gifts I give!"
- Carolyn Wells

"Whatever else be lost among the years, let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, let us hold close one day, remembering its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again."
- Grace Noll Crowell

"Peace on Earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day."
- Helen Steiner Rice

"Remember: this December, that love weighs more than gold!"
Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

"At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year."
- Thomas Tusser

"From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another, the warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other."
- Emily Matthews