"34 Powerful Xmas Quotes

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“34 Selected Christmas Quotes”

“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

“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
-Benjamin Franklin

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

“Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.”
-Dave Barry

“If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”
-Bob Hope

“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. “
-Dale Evans

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

“Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.”
-Edna Ferber

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

 “How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!”
― Benjamin Franklin

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

“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

“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."
~ (1912-1992), American newscaster. ”
― Eric Sevareid

“There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
Robert Staughton Lynd

 “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 doing a little something extra for someone.”
― Charles M. Schulz

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

“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple

“And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.”
― Sigrid Undset

“The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.”
― Jay Leno

 “Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.”
Pindar

“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 knowing is easy. It's the doing that gives us trouble.”
― Vannetta Chapman, A Simple Amish Christmas

“What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?”
― Salman Rushdie, Fury

 “Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!”
― Charles Dickens

“Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.”
― Helen Steiner Rice

“Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children; to remember the weaknesses and lonliness of people who are growing old; to stop asking how much your friends love you, and to ask yourself if you love them enough; to bear in mind the things that other people have to bear on their hearts; to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you; to make a grave for your ugly thougts and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open? Are you willing to do these things for a day? Then you are ready to keep Christmas!”
― Henry van Dyke

“Thank you," he says.
"Thank who?"
"I don't know. You?"
"No, not me. Jesus."
"Thank you, Jesus?"
"Yes, Toph, Jesus died for your Christmas fun.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.”
― Janice Maeditere

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

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.”
― Philip Yancey