Christmas quotes
849 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God's love, as we strive daily to become better people. The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach."
"The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live."
"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."
"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?"
"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."
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"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
"Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles."
"For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."
"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit."
"No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas."
"To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle."
"It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you."
"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."
"Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!"
"Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig."
"Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip."
"The star of Bethlehem was a star of hope that led the wise men to the fulfillment of their expectations, the success of their expedition. Nothing in this world is more fundamental for success in life than hope, and this star pointed to our only source for true hope: Jesus Christ."
"Be careful with drinking this Christmas. I got so drunk last night I found myself dancing in a cheesy bar... Or, as you like to call it, delicatessen."
"It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea."
"Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."
"But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant 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-up hearts freely."
"The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas."
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
"Christmas is the day that holds all time together."
