christmas quotes

The message of Christmas is that the visible material 

world is bound to the invisible spiritual world. 

~ Author Unknown

Our holiday traditions are about connecting with one 

another.

—Oprah

The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery 

of creation, of the essential joy that is life.

—Orhan Pamuk

We have a wake-up call opportunity to get real and be 

real with each other by finding ways to show love, give 

love, be love, without spending a lot of money.

—Oprah

Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts 

with next year's money.

~ Author Unknown

Giving someone what you yourself are longing for brings 

unexpected rewards, among them a powerful feeling of 

connection with others.

—Jill Neimark and Stephen Post

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents 

as opening our hearts.

~ Janice Maeditere

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: 

the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in 

each other. 

~ Burton Hillis

Christmas isn't just about being virtuous; it's about 

feeling lucky to be alive and grateful for the abundance

we share, without letting that abundance drive us crazy. 

—Jess Row

Throw wide the doors and welcome Christmas's dawn!

—Harvey Peake

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

My simple defense of Kwanzaa is that in the short time 

that we celebrated the holiday, it brought my family 

together. We weren't hitting the after-Christmas sales 

or trying out our new bicycles. We were kneeling around 

an altar and watching as the water ran from the jug in 

my brother's hands.

—Melonyce McAfee

A big orange and some fresh pine boughs and 'Silent 

Night' are all I need, and cookies, of course. They are 

the strings that when I pull on them I pull up the complete 

glittering storybook Christmases of my childhood.

—Garrison Keillor

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has 

come round, as a good time;

 a kind, forgiving, charitable 

time; 

the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the 

year,

 when men and women seem by one consent to open 

their shut-up hearts freely, 

and to think of people below 

them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave,

and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. 

~ Charles Dickens