Best Christmas Quotes – Most Inspiring and Festive Holiday Sayings

“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”

Alexander Smith

“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 built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”

G.K. Chesterton

“Love the giver more than the gift.”

Brigham Young

“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.”

Thomas S. Monson

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

Dale Evans

“What is Christmas? It is the tenderness of the past, courage for the present, and hope for the future.”

Agnes M. Pahro

“Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance—each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon.”

Deborah Whipp

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

Roy L. Smith

“Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.”

B. C. Forbes

“Peace on earth will come to stay when we live Christmas every day.”

Helen Steiner Rice

“Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more.”

Dr. Seuss

“Christmas is the season of joy, of gift-giving, and of families united.”

Norman Vincent Peale

“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

“Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold.”

Josephine Daskam Bacon

“Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas.”

Amy Grant

“Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.”

Valentine Davies

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.

Agnes M. Pahro

“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.”

Freya Stark

“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

“The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is young.”

Phillips Brooks

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

Thomas Tusser

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

Bing Crosby

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

Charles Dickens

“The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.”

James Cash Penney

“Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.”

WJ Tucker

“Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.”

Norman Wesley Brooks

“Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree.”

Charlotte Carpenter

“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.”

Richelle E. Goodrich

“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 Bagg Taber

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

Janice Maeditere

“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”

Garrison Keillor

“Teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.”

Zuzu Bailey, ‘It's a Wonderful Life'

“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

“Just remember, the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart.”

‘The Polar Express'

“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”

Charles Schulz

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

Shirley Sallay

“A joy that is shared is a joy made double.”

John Roy

“Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together.”

Rosie Thomas

“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.”  

Irving Berlin

“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.”

Washington Irving

“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” 

 Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.”

Mo Rocca

“May your days be merry and bright.”

White Christmas

“At Christmas, all roads lead home.”

Marjorie Holmes

“Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.”

It’s a Wonderful Life

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

Gisele Bundchen

“Even as an adult, I still find it hard to sleep on Christmas Eve.”

Carrie Latet

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

Will Ferrell, ‘Elf'

“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…”

Taylor Caldwell

“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”

Winston Churchill

“Christmas is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.”

Freya Stark

“It's the most wonderful time of the year!”

Edward Pola and George Wyle

“May this season find you among those you love, sharing in the twin glories of generosity and gratitude.”

Oprah Winfrey

“Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.”

Ann Garnett Schultz

“God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If He gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.”

Pope Francis

“T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”

Clement Clarke Moore

“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”

Mother Theresa

“Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go,
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.”

Let it Snow

“There's nothing cozier than a Christmas tree all lit up.”

Jenny Han

“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

Jesse Jackson

“Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.”

The Polar Express

“Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin—inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.”

John J. Geddes

“Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.”

Tom Baker

“Let us have music for Christmas. Sound the trumpet of joy and rebirth; let each of us try, with a song in our hearts, to bring peace to men on earth.”

Mildred L. Jarrell

“For Christmas is tradition time — traditions that recall the precious memories down the years, the sameness of them all.”

Helen Lowrie Marshall

“The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.”

W. C. Jones

“Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle.”

Unknown

“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

“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

“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”

W.T. Ellis

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

Pindar

“Christmas is a together-y sort of holiday.”

Winnie the Pooh

“How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!”

Benjamin Franklin

“If you want to experience the true meaning of Christmas, give something to someone who can offer nothing in return.”

Toni Sorenson

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.”

Richard Paul Evans

“The reality of loving God is loving him like he’s a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.”

Criss Jami

“Christmas Eve will find me, where the lovelight gleams. I’ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams.”

“I’ll be Home for Christmas”

“Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.”

Unknown

“Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.”

Helen Steiner Rice

“Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.”

Phillips Brooks

“Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.”

Ruth Carter Stapleton

“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”

Peg Bracken

“A Christmas miracle is when your family doesn’t get into a single argument all day.”

Melanie White

“Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it—you feel it. You know it. You believe it.”

Kevin Alan Milne

“You know you’re getting old when Santa starts looking younger.”

Robert Paul

“Let’s get lit.”

Unknown

“Joy to the world, the Lord is come, let earth receive her King.”

“Joy to the World”

“Walking in a winter wonderland.”

“Winter Wonderland”

“The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.”

Henry David Thoreau

“May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.”

Anonymous

“Christmas gives us an opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us.”

David Cameron

“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. Randel

“God goes to those who have time to hear him—and so on this cloudless night he went to simple shepherds.”

Max Lucado

“Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home.”

Carol Nelson

“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 melody that would last forever.”

Bess Streeter Aldrich

“Christmas is not a story of hope. It is hope.”

Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.”

Joan Mills

“Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.”

Pope John XXIII