Christmas Quotes and Sayings

Christmas Quotes and Sayings: Christmas is here with us, it’s time to celebrate the festive season with those dear to your heart or close to you.

Today we are going to look at a collection of inspirational, positive, and wise Christmas quotes, Christmas proverbs and Christmas sayings.

Christmas Quotes and Sayings

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.   – Calvin Coolidge

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

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

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

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

Christmas gives us an opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us. – David Cameron

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.  – Christina Rossetti

Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand. – Dr. Seuss

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! – Edward Pola and George Wyle

Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind. – Valentine Davies

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

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

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 W Brooks

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you…yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.   – Mother Teresa

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas. – Dale Evans

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

It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. – Mother Theresa

May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve. – Anonymous

Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling reckless extravagance. – Tove Jansson

Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed. – Ann Garnett Schultz

Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see. – The Polar Express

T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse – Clement Clarke Moore

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

Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart. – Freya Stark

Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more. – Dr. Seuss

Christmas Quotes

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.   – Rev. Billy Graham

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! 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

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

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.   – Isabel Currier

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

Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.  – unknown

Just remember, the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart. – The Polar Express

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

Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day. – Helen Steiner Rice

The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is young. – Phillips Brooks

Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold. – Josephine Daskam Bacon

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection. – Winston Churchill

Christmas Proverbs

Christmas comes but once a year

Christmas is talked of so long, that it comes at last.

After Christmas comes Lent

A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard.

Christmas is a good time to bleed horses in

Short Christmas Sayings

At Christmas, all roads lead home.  – Marjorie Holmes

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

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

Christmas is a spirit that flows from one heart to another. It is more precious than rubies and better than gold. – Agnes M. Pharo

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. – Phillips Brooks

The Christmas spirit–love–changes hearts and lives.  – Pat Boone

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear. Will Ferrell, “Elf”

At its best, Christmas is a mirror in which we see reflected the very best life can be. Where we see ourselves moved by generosity, inspired by hope, and uplifted by love, not only for ourselves but for the whole evolving universe. – Bruce Sanguin

Christmas is a time to expand our giving encompassing the friendless and needy … near and far. Christmas is sharing. – Patricia Clafford

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.  – W. T. Ellis

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?  – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Christmas now surrounds us, Happiness is everywhere. Our hands are busy with many tasks as carols fill the air. – Shirley Sallay

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.  – J. C. Penney

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.   – W. J. Tucker

Christmas is the season of joy, of gift-giving, and of families united. – Norman Vincent Peale

Short Merry Christmas Quotes

Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling. – Edna Ferber

A good conscience is a continual Christmas. – Benjamin Franklin

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

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood. – Richard Paul Evans

Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it — you feel it. You know it. You believe it. – Kevin Alan Milne

Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you’re home. – Carol Nelson

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

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. – Hamilton Wright Mabie

Love the giver more than the gift. – Brigham Young

To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. – Calvin Coolidge

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

I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another. – Carrie Fisher

It’s Christmas Eve. It’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be. – Frank Cross, “Scrooged”

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

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. – Charles Dickens

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 is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. –  Washington Irving

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

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