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PEACE, LOVE AND JOY: 30 short Christmas quotes

Last updated: March 26th, 2019

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

A good conscience is a continual Christmas. – Benjamin Franklin

Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling. – Edna Ferber

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 the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year—and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. – W.J. CameronChristmas tree - Short Christmas quotes

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

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

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. – Charles M. Schulz

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. – Roy L. SmithHearts - Short Christmas quotes

Christmas… is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart. – Freya Stark

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

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

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness. – Mo Rocca

Short Christmas quotesOur 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

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 Taber

When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled. – Joel Osteen

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

Snowy road - Short Christmas quotesChristmas 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

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

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

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas. – Dale Evans Rogers

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

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


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