75 Christmas Quotes To Light Up Your Celebration

75 Christmas Quotes To Light Up Your Celebration

It doesn't take much to get us in the holiday spirit when Christmas finally arrives. We're all set for the festivities as soon as we watch our favourite holiday movie and put the tree up! However, at times it might be difficult to put such emotions into words. Here are some of our all-time favourite Christmas quotations. 

We have the best quotes to share with family and friends, whether you're looking for something uplifting or a snappy and humorous greeting. Choose your favourite to use in this year's Christmas card or as the caption for all of your holiday Instagram pictures. When you're finally prepared to wrap all the gifts, they make the ideal captions for any Christmas photograph or especially adorable additions to handcrafted gift tags.

The quotes in this collection cover a wide range of topics, including how we can continue to celebrate the most significant aspects of Christmas throughout the year as well as the specific delights of giving. Visit our collection of Santa quotes and Christmas Bible passages if you need more motivation for this amazing time of year.

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Christmas Quotes For Colleagues

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

2. W.J. Tucker- Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

3. Marjorie Holmes- At Christmas, all roads lead home.

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

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

6. Laura Ingalls Wilder- And we are better throughout the year for having in spirit, become a child again at Christmas time.

7. Thomas Tusser- At Christmas, play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

8. W.T. Ellis- It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

9. Margaret Thatcher- Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.

Christmas Quotes For Family

1. Hamilton Wright Mabie- Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

2. James Cash Penney- The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.

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

4. Phillips Brooks- The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is young.

5. Freya Stark- Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.

6. Josephine Daskam Bacon- Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold.

7. Dr. Seuss- Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more.

8. Norman Vincent Peale- Christmas is the season of joy, of gift-giving, and of families united.

9. Helen Steiner Rice- Peace on earth will come to stay when we live Christmas every day.

10. Roy L. Smith- He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

Christmas Quotes For Friends

1. Deborah Whipp- Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance—each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon.

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

3. Romans 15:13- Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

4. John R. Rice- You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father’s face and tell Him you have received His Christmas gift.

5. David Jeremiah- All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.

6. Rev. Richard J. Fairchild- May the hope, the peace, the joy, and the love represented by the birth in Bethlehem this night fill our lives and become part of all that we say and do.

7. Valentine Davies- Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.

8. Brigham Young- Love the giver more than the gift.

9. W.T. Ellis- It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

10. Mo Rocca- Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

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

Christmas Quotes For Cards

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

2. Garrison Keillor- A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

3. Tove Jansson- Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling reckless extravagance.

4. Jesse Jackson- Your children need your presence more than your presents.

5. John J. Geddes- Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin—inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

6. Helen Lowrie Marshall- For Christmas is tradition time — traditions that recall the precious memories down the years, the sameness of them all.

7. Carol Nelson- Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you're home.

8. Deborah Whipp- Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance — each beautiful, unique, and too soon gone.

Christmas Quotes For Pastor/ Father

1. Laura Ingalls Wilder- Our 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 Christmastime.

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

3. Richelle E. Goodrich- Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.

4. Andy Rooney- 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.

5. Charlotte Carpenter- Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree.

6. Alexander Smith- Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

7. Kelly Clarkson- 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.

8. Gladys Bagg Taber- 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.

9. Bob Hope- When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things, not the great occasions, give off the greatest glow of happiness.

10. Taylor Caldwell- 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…

11. Toni Morrison- But I did know that nobody ever asked me what I wanted for Christmas. Had any adult with the power to fulfill my desires taken me seriously and asked me what I wanted, they would have known that I did not want to have anything to own, or to possess any object. I wanted, rather, to feel something on Christmas Day.

Christmas Quotes For Church Friends

1. Mildred L. Jarrell- 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.

2. Agnes M. Pahro- What is Christmas? It is the tenderness of the past, courage for the present, and hope for the future.

3. Augusta E. Randel- 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.

4. Bess Streeter Aldrich- 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.

5. Eric Severeid- Christmas 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.

6. Helen Steiner Rice- I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Christmas Quotes For Santa

1. David Cameron- Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us.

2. Helen Steiner Rice- Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.

3. Norman Vincent Peale- Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

4. Valentine Davies- Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.

5. Dr. Seuss- Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

6. Thomas Tusser- At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Short Christmas Quotes

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

2. Charles Schulz- Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

3. Marjorie Holmes- At Christmas, all roads lead home.

4. Jenny Han- There's nothing cozier than a Christmas tree all lit up.

5. Mo Rocca- Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

6. Tom Baker- Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.

7. Freya Stark- Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.

8. W. C. Jones- The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.

9. Josephine Daskam Bacon- Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold.

Christmas Quotes For Your Partner

1. Edna Ferber- Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

2. Craig D. Lounsbrough- Christmas is not a story of hope. It is hope.

3. Thomas S. Monson- 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.

4. B. C. Forbes- Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

5. Carrie Fisher- I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another.