110 Christmas Quotes + Wishes for Family and Friends
Sometimes it’s difficult to put into words just how the holiday season makes us feel with all of the wonder, whimsy, and perhaps wistfulness that goes along with Christmas season.
Here is a collection of 110 Christmas Quotes and Wishes for Family and Friends that will certainly brighten up your Christmas holiday.
Whether you’re seeking for original, considerate messages to include on this year’s Christmas cards or you just want the ideal Instagram caption to go with a festive photo, these quotes will surely help.
It is, after all, the happiest season of the year. Get ready to wish your family and friends with these Christmas Quotes.
Endearing Christmas Quotes and Wishes for Family and Friends
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“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.”
― Bess Streeter Aldrich
2.
“Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.”
― Anonymous
3.
“And so, this Christmas season may our hearts with gladness glow; As we read the blessed story That took place so long ago.”
― Alpha L. Buntain
4.
“Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.”
― Anonymous
5.
“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
― Burton Hillis
6.
“Let’s dance and sing and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.”
― G. Macfarren
7.
“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.”
― Anonymous
8.
“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
― Larry Wilde
9.
“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.”
― Anonymous
10.
“They err who think Santa Claus enters through the chimney. He enters through the heart.”
― Charles W. Howard
11.
“This time of year means being kind, to everyone we meet; To share a smile with strangers, we may pass along the street.”
― Anonymous
Family Christmas Quotes for Heartwarming Sentiments
12.
“Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide–open–heart that thinks of others first.”
― George Matthew Adams
13.
“Until one feels the spirit of Christmas, there is no Christmas. All else is outward display–so much tinsel and decorations. For it isn’t the holly, it isn’t the snow. It isn’t the tree not the firelight’s glow. It’s the warmth that comes to the hearts of men when the Christmas spirit returns again.”
― Anonymous
14.
“Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself.”
― Norman W. Brooks
15.
“Christmas is a time to expand our giving encompassing the friendless and needy … near and far. Christmas is sharing.”
― Patricia Claffor
16.
“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.”
― Anonymous
17.
“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
18.
“There is a Christmas song upon the air,
There is a joy innate within the heart;
An inner sense of peace, a holy light
Illumines life and sets these days apart.”
― Anonymous
19.
“Hail to the King of Bethlehem,
Who weareth in his diadem
The yellow crocus for the gem
Of his authority!”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
20.
“Teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.”
― Anonymous
21.
“I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas.”
― Anonymous
22.
“At Christmas, we, too, rejoice in the mystery of God’s love for us — love revealed through the gift of Christ’s birth.”
― George H. W. Bush
Christmas Quotes about Giving the Gift of Love
23.
“This time of year, means being kind
to everyone we meet,
To share a smile with strangers
we may pass along the street.”
― Betty Black
24.
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
― Anonymous
25.
“Christmas will always be in the hearts of God’s children everywhere as they extend a helping hand to a friend in need … as they go about reflecting God’s goodness in the little quiet and unheralded expressions of a loving heart … as they share the light of the world with those who live in darkness.”
― Jane Hillsmen
26.
“Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.”
― Anonymous
27.
“If each of us could give but a fraction to one another of what He gave to the whole human family, how many hearts could heal, how much sorrow and pain could be driven away.”
― Ronald Reagan
28.
“Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.”
― Anonymous
29.
“I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live;
I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give.”
― Carolyn Wells
30.
“Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.”
― Anonymous
31.
“Santa Claus is anyone who loves another and seeks to make them happy, who recognizes a comrade and brother in every man he meets upon life’s common road; who lives his life throughout the entire year in the Christmas spirit.”
― Edwin Osgood Grover
32.
“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
― Anonymous
33.
“Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words.”
― Anonymous
Joyous Christmas Quotes about Life and Love
34.
“The central core of truth is that Christmas turns everything upside down, the upside of heaven come down to earth. The Christmas story puts a new value on every man.”
― Halford Luccock
35.
“Christmas waves a magic wand over the world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
― Anonymous
36.
“I like the Christmas that fulfills my needs … to be forgiven from greed and selfishness, to fill my empty soul with peace and compassion, for hope and faith and charity, for myself renewed and hope restored in an erring world.”
― Robert D. Wigert
37.
“I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
38.
“For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.”
― Anonymous
39.
“The time draws near the birth of Christ:
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.”
― Alfred Tennyson
40.
“Christmas now surrounds us, Happiness is everywhere. Our hands are busy with many tasks, As carols fill the air.”
― Anonymous
41.
“We don’t know all of God’s ways, yet the Christmas story promises that God’s purpose is justice and His plan is peace.”
― George W. Bush
42.
“Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.”
― Anonymous
43.
“The angels sang at Christmas
With all the hosts above,
And still we sing the newborn King
His glory and his love.”
― Timothy Dudley-Smith
44.
“Now out upon you, Christmas!
Is this the merry time
When the red hearth blazed, the harper sung,
And the bells rung their glorious chime.”
― Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Beautiful Christmas Quotes and Wishes
45.
“May joy be yours today,
And radiantly abide
Within your heart until
Another Christmastide.”
― Gail Brook Burket
46.
“Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.”
― Anonymous
47.
“Your annual Christmas service . . . is a dramatic and inspiring event of national interest. It symbolizes and vivifies our greatest Christian festival with its eternal message of unselfishness, joy, and peace.”
― Herbert Hoover
48.
“A very Merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear.”
― John Lennon and Yoko Ono
49.
“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas; Soon the bells will start, And the thing that will make them ring, Is the carol that you sing, Right within your heart.”
― Anonymous
50.
“The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round — kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.”
― Harlan Miller
51.
“At Christmas be merry and thankful withal,
And feast your poor neighbors, the great and the small.”
― Thomas Tusser
52.
“Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given–when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.”
― Anonymous
53.
“Sing the song of great joy that the angels began,
Sing the glory to God and of good-will to man!”
― John Greenleaf Whittier
54.
“Christmas gift suggestions: to your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.”
― Anonymous
55.
“Under the spell of the Christmas story the locked-up treasures of kindliness and sympathy come from the inside of the heart, where they are often kept imprisoned, to the outside of actual expression in deed and word. … It is the vision of the Christ-child which enables all men to get at the best treasures of their lives and offer them for use.”
― Halford Edward Luccock
True Meaning of Christmas Quotes
56.
“Throughout the Christmas season our thoughts turn to a star in the east, seen 20 centuries ago, and to a light that can guide us still.”
― George W. Bush
57.
“Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.”
― Valentine Davies
58.
“The very best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person.” That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a Person.”
― Halford Luccock
59.
“Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words.”
― Harlan Miller
60.
“We hear the beating of wings over Bethlehem and a light that is not of the sun or of the stars shines in the midnight sky. Let the beauty of the story take away all narrowness, all thought of formal creeds.”
― The New York Times
61.
“As you chose the lowly, the outcasts, and the poor to receive the greatest news the world had ever known, so may we worship you in meekness of heart. May we also remember our brothers and sisters less fortunate than ourselves in this season of giving. Amen.”
― Karen L. Oberst
62.
“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.”
― Wilfred A. Peterson
63.
“If we live our lives for truth, for love, and for God, we never need be afraid.”
― Ronald Reagan
64.
“The spirit of Christmas breathes an eternal message of peace and good-will to all men.”
― FDR “Christmas Greeting to the Nation”
65.
“Christmas … is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.”
― Freya Stark
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“He brought forth a power that is infinite and a promise that is eternal, a power greater than all mankind’s military might, for His power is Godly love, love that can lift our hearts and soothe our sorrows and heal our wounds and drive away our fears.”
― Ronald Reagan
Christmas Quotes and Wishes from Books
67.
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!”
― Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
68.
“I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday — the longer, the better — from the great boarding-school, where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.”
― Charles Dickens in “A Christmas Tree”
69.
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
― “Ebeneezer Scrooge”, in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
70.
“The happiness and love on this one day,
Bring thoughts which warm and cheer.
May we keep Christmas in our hearts,
Through every day of all the year.”
― Gertrude B. Holman in “The Little Things at Christmas”
71.
“Christmas is good news in a world of bad news. … Christmas brings hope to a dark world.”
― Halford Luccock, in “Whoops! It’s Christmas”
72.
“There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.”
― Bill McKibben in Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case For a More Joyful Christmas
73.
“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.”
― Harlan Miller in Better Homes and Gardens
74.
“Christmas is the time for looking ahead fraction through the gates of the swiftly approaching new year … of resolving that the coming months will reflect a kinder, more forgiving and less heedless person than mirrored in the past.”
― Ellen V. Morgan in “Christmas is the Time”
75.
“Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.”
― William Parks in Missions
76.
“It is not even the beginning of Christmas unless it is Christmas in the heart.”
― Richard Roberts in Contemporary Christ
77.
“At Christmas I no more desire a rose, Than wish a snow in May’s newfangled mirth; But life of each thing that in season grows.”
― “Biron” in Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare
Top Christmas Wishes and Christmas Messages
78.
“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.”
― Gladys Taber
79.
“Shepherds at the grange,
Where the Babe was born,
Sang with many a change,
Christmas carols until morn.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
80.
“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”
― Anonymous
81.
“Good will and joy a vital part.
It’s higher thought and a greater plan.
It’s glorious dream in the soul of man.”
― Wilfred A. Peterson
82.
“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.”
― Anonymous
83.
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!”
― Anonymous
84.
“When we speak of Jesus and of His life, we speak of a man revered as a prophet and teacher by people of all religions, and Christians speak of someone greater — a man Who was and is Divine.”
― Ronald Reagan
85.
“At this Christmastime we should renew our faith in God.”
― Harry Truman
86.
“Christmas is for everyone, adults and children alike. Allow this season fill your heart, and let go of the things you dislike.”
― Anonymous
87.
“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”
― Bob Hope
88.
“When we make ready our hearts for the labor and the suffering and the ultimate victory which lie ahead, then we observe Christmas Day — with all of its memories and all of its meanings — as we should.”
― FDR, “Christmas Eve Message to the Nation”
Timeless Christmas Quotes
89.
“Let us pray at this Christmastime for the wisdom, the humility, and the courage to carry on in this faith.”
― Harry Truman
90.
“For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.”
― W. J. Tucker
91.
“Some Christmas tree ornaments do a lot more than glitter and glow; they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.”
― Anonymous
92.
“We meet in the spirit of the first Christmas, when the midnight choir sang the hymn of joy: ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.’”
― Harry Truman
93.
“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.”
― Anonymous
94.
“Hard thoughts are heavy to carry, my friend,
And life is short from beginning to end;
Be kind to yourself, leave nothing to mend
When Christmas comes.”
― William Lytle
95.
“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.”
― Anonymous
96.
“We pray that with victory will come a new day of peace on earth in which all the Nations of the earth will join together for all time. That is the spirit of Christmas, the holy day.”
― FDR, “Address to the Nation”
97.
“Christmas Eve will find me, where the lovelight gleams. I’ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams.”
― Harry Truman
98.
“Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.”
― Anonymous
99.
“Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.”
― Anonymous
Inspirational Christmas Quotes and Wishes
100.
“Through Jesus Christ the world will yet be a better and a fairer place. This faith sustains us today as it has sustained mankind for centuries past.”
― Harry S. Truman
101.
“The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.”
― Anonymous
102.
“Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups 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 “Extension”
103.
“At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.”
― Thomas Tusser
104.
“Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it–you feel it. You know it. You believe it.”
― Anonymous
105.
“We miss the purport of Christ’s birth if we do not accept it as a living link which joins us together in spirit as children of the ever-living and true God. In love alone — the love of God and the love of man — will be found the solution of all the ills which afflict the world today.”
― Harry Truman
106.
“The holiday season is a perfect time to reflect on our blessings and seek ways to make life better for those around us.”
― Anonymous
107.
“Have you any old grudges you would like to pay,
Any wrongs laid up from a bygone day?
Gather them now and lay them away
When Christmas comes.”
― William Lytle
108.
“When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,
We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago,
And etched on vacant places
Are half-forgotten faces
Of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
109.
“We should learn the true Christmas lesson of gentle, thoughtful kindness to those we love and to all we meet in life’s busy ways.”
― Anonymous
110.
“I wish for all of you a Christmas filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit, and many years of future happiness with the peace of God reigning upon this earth.”
― Harry S. Truman
The most heartfelt, kind, and sentimental Christmas Quotes and Wishes hit notes connected to the heart.
We hope our collection of choicely selected Christmas greetings will help you to remind the true meaning of Christmas to your family and friends.
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