70 Christmas Quotes, Wishes & Messages

Looking for the perfect quote to get you into the Christmas spirit? Here are the best Christmas Quotes to share and get in to holiday mood.

Christmas Quotes

1. “The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.” – Henry David Thoreau

2. “Joy to the world, the Lord is come, let earth receive her King.” – Joy to the World
3. “Walking in a winter wonderland.” – Winter Wonderland
4. “Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.” – Helen Steiner Rice
5. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
6. “Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” – Dr. Seuss
7. “Your children need your presence more than your presents.” – Jesse Jackson
8. “‘One can never have enough socks,’ said Dumbledore. ‘Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.’” – J. K. Rowling
9. “And so this is Christmas… what have you done?” – John Lennon
10. “Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” – Edna Ferber

Christmas Quotes 2024

11. “Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.” – Pindar
12. “Christmas is a together-y sort of holiday.” – Winnie the Pooh
13. “It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life.” – Nick Hornby
14. “Christmas day is the children’s, but the holidays are youth’s dancing-time.” – Booth Tarkington
15. “How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!” – Benjamin Franklin
16. “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.” – Steve Maraboli
17. “If you want to experience the true meaning of Christmas, give something to someone who can offer nothing in return.” – Toni Sorenson
18. “You know you’re getting old when Santa starts looking younger.” – Robert Paul
19. “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” – Benjamin Franklin
20.  “Christmas Eve will find me, where the love light gleams. I’ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams.” –  I’ll be Home for Christmas

Merry Christmas Quotes

21. “A joy that is shared is a joy made double.” – John Roy
22. “Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together.” – Rosie Thomas
23. “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.” – Irving Berlin
24. “Love the giver more than the gift.” – Brigham Young
25. “Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.” – Charles Dickens
26. “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” – Charles M. Schulz
27. “Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.” – Washington Irving
28. “I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.” – Fred Rogers
29. “T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” – Clement Clarke Moore
30. “When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness.” – Bob Hope

Christmas Wishes

31. “What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” – Agnes M. Pahro
32. “We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
33. “Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable Gift.” – 2 Corinthians 9:15
34. “Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.” – Bart Simpson
35. “Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.” – It’s a Wonderful Life
36. “At Christmas, all roads lead home.” – Marjorie Holmes
37. “Christmas can’t be bought from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more.” – Dr. Seuss
38. “May your hearth be warm, your holidays grand, and your heart held gently in the good Lord’s hand.” – Anonymous
39. “Christmas to me is as many people as possible happy.” – Tupac Shakur
40. “May your days be merry and bright.” – White Christmas

Merry Christmas Messages

41. ”Christmas and the holidays is the season of giving. It’s a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.” – Gisele Bundchen
42. “We count down the days, just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all.” – Joanna Gaines
43. “My brother, little sister and I decorate the tree together, and every year we fight over who gets to hang our handmade childhood decorations.” – Carly Rae Jepsen
44. “There’s a certain magic that comes with the very first snow. For when the first snow is also a Christmas snow, well, something wonderful is bound to happen.” – Frosty the Snowman
45. “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” – Norman Vincent Peale
46. “Even as an adult, I still find it hard to sleep on Christmas Eve.” – Carrie Latet
47. “Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle.” – Anonymous
48. “As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.” – Eric Sevareid
49. “God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If He gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.” – Pope Francis
50. “It’s not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.” – Mother Theresa

Christmas Greetings

51. “May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.” – Anonymous
52. “Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see.” – The Polar Express
53. “T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” – Clement Clarke Moore
54. “Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.” – Ann Garnett Schultz
55. “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” – Edward Pola & George Wyle
56. “Christmas isn’t just a day—it’s a frame of mind.” – Miracle on 34th Street
57. “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing, but of reflection.” – Winston Churchill
58. “The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is young.” – Phillips Brooks
59. “Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
60. “Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.” – Norman Wesley Brooks

Christmas Quotes

61. “Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.” – Freya Stark
62. “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” – Roy L. Smith
63. “One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day.” – Andy Rooney
64. “There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves.” – Eric Sevareid
65. “The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.” – W.C. Jones
66. “Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” – Dale Evans Rogers
67. “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” – Hamilton Wright Mabie
68. “Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.” – Margaret Thatcher
69. “It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” – W.T. Ellis
70. “At Christmas, play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.” – Thomas Tusser