Inspirational Christmas Quotes

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

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Christmas, Xmas, Mind

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• 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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• Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Christmas, Important, Way

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• Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

  Pope Francis

  Christmas, Religious, Light

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• It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

  Mother Teresa

  Christmas, Letting Go, God Love

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• The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

  Helen Keller

  Christmas, Xmas, Real

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

  William Thomas Ellis

  Christmas, Xmas, Blessed

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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, 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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• It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

  Mother Teresa

  Christmas, Letting Go, Brother

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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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• And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

  Dr. Seuss

  Christmas, Holiday, Mean

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Christmas, Dream, Lying

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• Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.

  George W Truett

  Christmas, Country, Race

  "Who Said That?: More than 2,500 Usable Quotes and Illustrations". Book by George Sweeting, p. 101, 1995.

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

  Peg Bracken

  Love, Christmas, Time

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• How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Christmas, Christian, Religion

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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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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• Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Love, Christmas, Xmas

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1900). “My study fire: first series”

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• I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Happy Holidays, Forgiving

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.5

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• The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

  William Carey Jones

  Christmas, Xmas, Heart

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• Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

  "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, 1836.

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• Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

  Christina Rossetti

  Christmas, Xmas, Stars

  1893 Verses,'Love Came Down at Christmas'.

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• I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. 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. For this is still the time God chooses.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Family, Christmas, Night

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