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

SOME GREAT CHRISTMAS QUOTES

The merry family gatherings-

The old, the very young;

The strangely lovely way they

Harmonize in carols sung.

For Christmas is tradition time-

Traditions that recall

The precious memories down the years,

The sameness of them all.

|| Helen Lowrie Marshall

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions || Bill McKibben

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 the keeping - place for memories of our innocence || Joan Mills

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

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. Pharo

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

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart || George Matthew Adams

The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting || Louisa May Alcott

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 a melody that would last forever || Bess Streeter Aldrich

The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect! || Charles N. Barnard

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas || Peg Bracken

The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung || Phillips Brooks

I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never aone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the word seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses || Taylor Caldwell

Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree || Charlotte Carpenter

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

Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Christmas is for whoever is old enough to have denied the unquenchable spirit of man || Margaret Cousins

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

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

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

Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget || Hugh Downs

They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart || Paul M. Ell

If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away || Unknown

Until one feels the spirit of Christmas, there is no Christmas. All else is outward display - so much tinsel and decorations. For it isn't the holly, it isn't the snow. It isn't the tree not the firelight's glow. It's the warmth that comes to the hearts of men when the Christmas spirit returns again || Unknown

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 for children. But it is for grownups 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, my child, is love in action || Dale Evans

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal || Lenore Hershey

My first copies of Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn still have some blue-spruce needles scattered in the pages. They smell of Christmas still || Charlton Heston

At Christmas, all roads lead home || Marjorie Holmes

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

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each other’s burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas || W. C. Jones

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small || Eva K. Logue

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive || Robert Lynd

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love || Hamilton Wright Mabi

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 is doing a little something extra for someone || Charles Schulz

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is || Eric Sevareid

Christmas is the day that holds time together || Alexander Smith

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion || Ralph Sockman

Christmas - is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart || Freya Stark

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends || Margaret Thatcher

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year || Thomas Tusser

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles || Unknown

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone || Deborah Whipp

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.

And the more you spend in blessing,

The poor and lonely and sad,

The more of your heart's possessing,

Returns to you glad.

|| John Greenleaf Whittier

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall || Larry Wilde