The Spirit of Christmas Quotes

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I WILL HONOR Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

-Charles Dickens

REMEMBER, IF Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.

-Charlotte Carpenter

FOR CENTURIES men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

-William Jewett Tucker

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

-W.J. Cameron

I TRULY BELIEVE that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.

-Norman Vincent Peale

PEACE ON earth and mercy mild are still possible. On Christmas Eve, all things are possible.

-Gregg Easterbrook

CHRISTMAS IS a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

-Winston Churchill

THE WAY you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.

-Henry David Thoreau

THE THING about Christmas is that it almost doesn’t matter what mood you’re in or what kind of a year you’ve had; it’s a fresh start.

-Kelly Clarkson

I HEARD THE bells on Christmas Day. Their old, familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the words repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men!

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

STARS OF heaven, clear and bright, shine upon this Christmas light, vaster far than midnight skies are its timeless mysteries.

-Timothy Dudley-Smith

FRESHLY CUT Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

-John J. Geddes

THE GREAT majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

-G.K. Chesterton

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 IS here, merry old Christmas, gift-bearing Christmas, day of grand memories, king of the year!

-Washington Irving

HOW, THE essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

-Stephen Leacock

DON’T LET the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

-Taylor Caldwell

HAVE YOU any old grudges you would like to pay, any wrongs laid up from a bygone day? -Gather them now and lay them away when Christmas comes. Hard thoughts are heavy to carry, my friend, and life is short from beginning to end; be kind to yourself, leave nothing to mend when Christmas comes.

-William Haines Lytle

CHRISTMAS IS not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It’s lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It’s higher thought and a greater plan. It’s glorious dream in the soul of man.

-Wilferd Peterson

THERE IS no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.

-Bill Mckibben

CHRISTMAS IS not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.

-William Parks

PEACE ON earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.

-Helen Steiner Rice

CHRISTMAS WAVES a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

-Norman Vincent Peale

THE SPIRIT of Christmas is - and hopefully always will be - about good will and generosity to others, and peace on earth.

-Nick Rahall

CHRISTMAS IS not a date. It is a state of mind.

-Mary Ellen Chase

CHRISTMAS IS the day that holds all time together.

-Alexander Smith

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.

-Ray Stannard Baker

LET NO pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

-Benjamin Franklin

AT CHRISTMAS play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

-Thomas Tusser

CHRISTMAS! THE very word brings joy to our hearts.

-Joan Winmill Brown

BLESSED IS the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

-Hamilton Wright Mabie

ISN’T IT funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times.

-Kate Langley Bosher

MAY YOU have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; the spirit of Christmas which is peace; the heart of Christmas which is love.

-Ada V. Hendricks

THE CHRISTMAS spirit – love - changes hearts and lives.

-Pat Boone

BLESSED IS the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

-William Thomas Ellis

CHRISTMAS AND the holidays are the season of giving. It’s a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

-Gisele Bundchen

CHRISTMAS IS a kindling of new fires.

-Gladys Taber