Christmas Thoughts Quotes

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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At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Thomas Tusser

Christmas, Xmas, Cheer

Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1580)

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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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Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christmas, Grateful, Thank You God

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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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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 Christmas-time.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Christmas, Xmas, Memories

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Yvonne Pope (2006). “Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom”, p.68, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

Bill Watterson

Christmas, Xmas, Beer

"Calvin and Hobbes". Comic strip by Bill Watterson, November 18, 1985 – December 31, 1995.

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Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Mary Ellen Chase

Christmas, Dating, Mind

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

Mother Teresa

Christmas, Letting Go, God Love

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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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Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God
and the love of our fellow men
should prevail over all hatred and bitterness,
a time when our thoughts
and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.

George McDougall

Christmas, Mean, Healing

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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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I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.

Ray Stannard Baker

Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

Ray Stannard Baker (1910). “Adventures in Friendship”

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Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

Kin Hubbard

Christmas, Children, Mean

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Except the Christ be born again tonight
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
The world will never see his kingdom bright.

Vachel Lindsay

Christmas, Dream, Son

Vachel Lindsay, Dennis Camp (1984). “The poetry of Vachel Lindsay: complete & with Lindsay's drawings”, Spoon River Poetry Pr

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Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

Kate Langley Bosher

Christmas, Lonely, Mind

Kate Langley Bosher (2005). “How It Happened”, p.15, 1st World Publishing

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As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

Donald E. Westlake

Family, Christmas, Struggle

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Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren't for Christmas
We'd all be Jewish.

Benny Hill

Christmas, Reality, Rose

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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

Walter Scott

Christmas, Xmas, Cheer

Sir Walter Scott (1838). “Poetical works”, p.278

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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

Katharine Whitehorn

Funny, Christmas, Views

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There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Christmas, Xmas

P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall.

Dave Barry

Christmas, Holiday, Years

Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.79, Ballantine Books

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Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins.

Leonard Ravenhill

Jesus, Names, People

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Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts.

Max Lucado

Christmas, Shepherds, Groups

Max Lucado (2013). “God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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