Believing In Christmas Quotes

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

Christmas, Song, Xmas

Norman Vincent Peale (1994). “Norman Vincent Peale: Words That Inspired Him”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world.
The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son.
The only requirement is to believe in Him.
The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life.

Corrie Ten Boom

Christmas, Believe, Son

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Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.

George Matthew Adams

Christmas, Heart, Thinking

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Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you ... to remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old ... Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest ting in the world ... stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death... Then you can keep Christmas! But you can never keep it alone.

Henry Van Dyke

Christmas, Hate, Loneliness

"The Spirit of Christmas". Book by Henry Van Dyke, December 31, 1987.

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the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

John Greenleaf Whittier

Christmas, Famous Inspirational, Giving

John Greenleaf Whittier, “Somehow not only for Christmas”

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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

Dick Gregory

Christmas, Dark, White

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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

Funny, Christmas, Mother

Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1984)

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

William Thomas Ellis

Christmas, Xmas, Heart

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

Charles Dickens

Love, Christmas, Education

A Christmas Carol stave 4 (1843)

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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." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

Andy Rooney

Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

Walter Scott

Christmas, Wind, Woods

Walter Scott (1810). “Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field”, p.133

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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, Xmas, Real

"Chicken soup for the soul Christmas treasury for kids" by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap, HCI, (p. 1), 2002.

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Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

Oren Arnold

Christmas, Xmas, Tolerance

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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.

Phyllis Diller

Christmas, Xmas, Past

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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

Love, Christmas, Baby

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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

Funny, Christmas, Wise

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

Richard Lamm

Funny, Christmas, Xmas

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What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

Phyllis Diller

Christmas, Jobs, Xmas

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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

Christmas, Lonely, Heart

Attributed to John Greenleaf Whittier in The Educational Monthly of Canada, Volume 24‎, p. 29, 1901.

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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Victor Borge

Funny, Christmas, Witty

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That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

Jerry Seinfeld

Funny, Christmas, People

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To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.

Oren Arnold

Christmas, Xmas, Children

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

Washington Irving

Christmas, Thank You, Heart

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I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

Steven Wright

Funny, Christmas, Brother

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The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.

Steven Wright

Funny, Christmas, Tired

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