Christmas Quotes 

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


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 alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.  ~ Taylor Caldwell


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?  ~ G.K. Chesterton


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


I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.  ~ C.S. Lewis


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


He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.  ~ Roy L. Smith


It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.  ~ Charles Dickens


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


The wise still seek Him.  ~ Author Unknown


I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.  ~ Bernard Manning


How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!  ~ Benjamin Franklin


The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.  ~ Joan Rivers


Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.  ~ Ronald Reagan


The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature.  ~ Andy Rooney


Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.  ~ Kin Hubbard


They gave him a manger for a cradle, a carpenter's bench for a pulpit, thorns for a crown, and a cross for a throne. He took them and made them the very glory of his career.  ~ W.E. Orchard


The worst gift is a fruitcake.  There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.  ~ Johnny Carson


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


For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.  ~ Loring A. Schuler


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


Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.  ~ Johnny Carson


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


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


There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.  ~ W.J. Cameron


A good conscience is a continual Christmas.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


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


There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.  ~ Erma Bombeck


He changed sunset into sunrise.  ~ Clement of Alexandria


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


When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.  ~ Bob Hope


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


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


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


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


Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.  ~ Terri Guillemets


The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.  ~ Helen Keller


Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.  ~ St. Augustine of Hippo


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


Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round.  ~ Jessica Archmint


There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.  ~ Erma Bombeck


At Christmas, all roads lead home.  ~ Marjorie Holmes


People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.  ~ Ogden Nash


Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.  ~ George W. Truett


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


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


Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.  ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder


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


O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!  ~ Guy Wetmore Carryl


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


There is no name so sweet on earth, no name so sweet in Heaven, The name, before His wondrous birth, to Christ the Savior given.  ~ George W. Bethune


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


Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay.  ~ Ralph Blane


I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.  ~ Maya Angelou


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


If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas?  ~ Don Meredith


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


Be merry all, be merry all,
With holly dress the festive hall;
Prepare the song, the feast, the ball,
To welcome merry Christmas.  ~ William Robert Spencer