Christmas Giving Quotes

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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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, Xmas, Light

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Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.

Thomas S. Monson

Christmas, Giving, Spirit

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

Bill Vaughan

Inspirational, Family, Happy

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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.

B. C. Forbes

Moving, Thinking, Giving

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Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

Charles M. Schulz

Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Norman MacEwen

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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Christmas means giving. The Father gave his Son, and the Son gave his life. Without giving there is no true Christmas, and without sacrifice there is no true worship.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Father, Mean, Son

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Pierre Corneille

Birthday, Christmas, Giving

"The Liar". Play by Pierre Corneille, 1643.

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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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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

Love, Inspirational, Life

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

Bing Crosby

Christmas, Xmas, Blessed

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Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas, Holiday, Giving

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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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It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

Paul van Dyk

Family, Christmas

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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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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 Washington Bethune

Christmas, Sweet, Names

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Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.

Calvin Coolidge

Christmas, Xmas, Mind

"Bill O'Reilly: The War on Christmas: The big picture" by Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. November 29, 2012.

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But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens

Christmas, Forgiveness, Heart

Charles Dickens (1983). “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.281, Library of Alexandria

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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

Christmas, Giving Up, Spirit

"Interview: Joel and Victoria Osteen on Christmas, Stewardship". Interview with Josephine Vivaldo, www.christianpost.com. November 16, 2010.

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

Oren Arnold

Christmas, Xmas, Tolerance

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One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

J. K. Rowling

Family, Christmas, Book

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Good news from heaven the angels bring,
Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
To us this day a child is given,
To crown us with the joy of heaven.

Martin Luther

Christmas, Children, Angel

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

Dale Evans

Love, Marriage, Christmas

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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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