Merry Christmas Inspirational Quotes - Page 2

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

  Garrison Keillor

  Love, Funny, Christmas

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

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• Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

  Alexander Smith

  Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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• The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Christmas, Girl

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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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• Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

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• Love the giver more than the gift.

  Brigham Young

  Love, Christmas, Meaningful

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• There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

  Erma Bombeck

  Christmas, Spiritual, Morning

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.260, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Love, Christmas, Xmas

  Grace Noll Crowell, “Whatever else”

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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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• Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt in amazement. Their night watch had been interrupted by an explosion of light from heaven and a symphony of angels. God goes to those who have time to hear him-and so on this cloudless night he went to simple shepherds.

  Max Lucado

  Christmas, Angel, Simple

  Max Lucado (2010). “God Came Near Deluxe Edition”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.

  Lenora Mattingly Weber

  Christmas, Xmas, Children

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• Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Christmas, Money

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.136, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Christmas, Lying, Generosity

  Charles Dudley Warner (1871). “My Summer in a Garden”

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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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• 'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet,
  Could we bestow the gifts we get,
  And keep the ones we give away,
  How happy were our Christmas day!

  Carolyn Wells

  Christmas, Blessed, Giving

  Carolyn Wells (2016). “Childhood Essentials Library - Carolyn Wells Edition: 29 Novels & 150+ Poems, Stories, Fables & Charades for Children (Illustrated): Patty Fairfield Series, Marjorie Maynard Collection, Two Little Women Trilogy, Mother Goose's Menagerie, The Jingle Book, A Phenomenal Fauna, The Seven Ages of Childhood, Children of Our Town¦”, p.4002, e-artnow

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• 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.

  John R. Rice

  Christmas, Spiritual, Dad

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• Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christmas, Teacher, School

  Ronald Reagan, Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Graebner Anderson, Martin Anderson (2001). “Reagan, in His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America”, p.511, Simon and Schuster

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• Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms.

  Paul Scherrer

  Christmas, Baby, Heaven

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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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• 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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• To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world." ~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927).

  Calvin Coolidge

  Christmas, Stars, Xmas

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• I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

  Carrie Fisher

  Christmas, Christian, Kindness

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