Christmas is a special time of year filled with joy, love, and togetherness. As we gather with family and friends, we create memories that last a lifetime. One beautiful way to capture the spirit of Christmas is through heartwarming quotes.
These quotes remind us of what really matters during the holiday season: kindness, giving, and love. Whether you’re looking for inspiration, sharing a message with loved ones, or just enjoying the magic of the season, these quotes can add warmth to your celebrations.
In this blog, we will share 150 heartwarming Christmas quotes to brighten your holiday spirit.
- “What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” — Agnes M. Pahro
- “Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.” — Bart Simpson
- “Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.” — Charles Dickens
- “Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable Gift.” — 2 Corinthians 9:15
- “At Christmas, all roads lead home.” — Marjorie Holmes
- “Walking in a winter wonderland.” — “Winter Wonderland”
- “Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.” — Washington Irving
- “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.” — Irving Berlin
- “May your hearth be warm, your holidays grand and your heart held gently in the good Lord’s hand.” — Unknown
- “Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.” — Valentine Davies, Miracle on 34th Street
- “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” — Buddy, Elf
- “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go.” — Meredith Willson, A Christmas Story
- “Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.” — Clarence, It’s a Wonderful Life
- “God bless us, everyone!” — Tiny Tim, A Christmas Carol
- “Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together.” — Rosie Thomas
- “Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.” — It’s a Wonderful Life
- “We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder
- “T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” — Clement Clarke Moore
- “Love the giver more than the gift.” — Brigham Young
- “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” — Charles M. Schulz
- “A joy that is shared is a joy made double.” — John Roy
- “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 to me is as many people as possible happy.” — Tupac Shakur
- “Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” — Dr. Seuss
- “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
Christmas Quotes for Cards
- “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” – Hamilton Wright Mabie
- “Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
- “T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” – Clement Clarke Moore
- “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens
- “Christmas Day is in our grasp, as long as we have hands to clasp! Christmas Day will always be, just as long, as we have we! Welcome Christmas while we stand, heart to heart, and hand in hand!” – Dr. Seuss
- “Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” – Peg Bracken
- “Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.” – Washington Irving
- “The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.” – Phillips Brooks
- “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” – Will Ferrell
- “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
Short Christmas Quotes
- “Christmas, my child, is love in action.” – Dale Evans
- “Nothing seems to bring people together like Christmas.” – Steven Dodrill
- “Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.” – Mo Rocca
- “Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” – Edna Ferber
- “Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold.” – Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
- “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.” – Valentine Davies
- “For it is in giving that we receive.” – Francis of Assisi
- “It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” – W.T. Ellis
- “Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” – Alexander Smith
- “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” – Edward Pola and George Wyle
- “Love the giver more than the gift.” – Brigham Young
- “What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.” – Phyllis Diller
- “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” — Edward Pola and George Wyle
- “May your days be merry and bright.” — White Christmas
- “Christmas isn’t just a day; it’s a frame of mind.” — Valentine Davies
- “I will honor Christmas in my heart.” — Charles Dickens
- “T’was the night before Christmas…” — Clement Clarke Moore
- “There’s no place like home for the holidays.” — Bing Crosby
- “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” — Elf
- “Peace on earth will come to stay.” — Helen Steiner Rice
- “Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.” — It’s a Wonderful Life
- “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” — Charles M. Schulz
- “The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.” — Richard Paul Evans
- “Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.” — Bart Simpson
Christmas Quotes For Family
- At Christmas, all roads lead home.” – Marjorie Holmes
- “Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us.” – David Cameron
- “When we remember a special Christmas, it is not the presents that made it special, but the laughter, the feeling of love, and the togetherness of friends and family that made that Christmas special.” – Catherine Pulsifer
- “Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together.” – Rosie Thomas
- “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 Hills
- “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
- “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.” – Andy Rooney
- “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
- “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
Inspirational Christmas Quotes
- “Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.” – Ann Garnett Schultz
- “Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” – Washington Irving
- “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” – James 1:17
- “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” – Roy L. Smith
- “Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.” – Helen Steiner Rice
- “Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance – each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon.” – Deborah Whipp
- “The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money. There’s a kind of glory to them when they’re all lit up that exceeds anything all the money in the world could buy.” – Andy Rooney
- “May the hope, the peace, the joy, and the love represented by the birth in Bethlehem this night fill our lives and become part of all that we say and do.” – Rev. Richard J. Fairchild
- “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” – Romans 15:13
- “Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable Gift.” – 2 Corinthians 9:15
- “We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
- “All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.” – David Jeremiah
- “What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” – Agnes M. Pahro
- “Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white.’” – Bing Crosby
- “Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.” — Janice Maeditere
- “It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” — W.T. Ellis
- “The true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart.” — The Polar Express
- “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” — Winston S. Churchill
- “At Christmas, all roads lead home.” — Marjorie Holmes
- “What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” — Agnes M. Pahro
Christmas Quotes For Friends
- “Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It’s discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.” – Thomas S. Monson
- “Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it — you feel it, you know it, you believe it.” – Kevin Alan Milne
- “Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” – Dale Evans
- “The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.” – Richard Paul Evans
- “Christmas is a necessity. 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
- “Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see.” – Chris Van Allsburg (from Polar Express)
- “Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” – Peg Bracken
- “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
- “As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
- “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” – Charles M. Schulz
Funny Christmas Quotes
- “Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.” – Andy Borowitz
- “I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange.” – Henny Youngman
- “That’s what Christmas memories are made from, they’re not planned, they’re not scheduled, nobody puts them in their Blackberry, they just happen.” – Kelly Finch (from Deck the Halls)
- “Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.” – Erma Bombeck
- “I hate the radio this time of year because they play “All I Want For Christmas Is You” like, every other song. And that’s just not enough.” – Bridger Winegar
- “A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” – Garrison Keillor
- “Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.” – Kin Hubbard
- “Christmas is a togethery sort of holiday. That’s my favorite kind.” – A. A. Milne (from Winnie the Pooh)
- “Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.” – Victor Borge
- “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” – Buddy (from Elf)
- “Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.” – Dave Barry
- “Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.” – Stephen Graham Jones
- “You’re skipping Christmas! Isn’t that against the law?” – Spike Frohmeyer (from Christmas With the Kranks)
- “There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.” – Dan Florence
- “I can’t believe I can’t find my Christmas spirit! It’s like looking for my car keys, only I don’t know what my car looks like.” — Anonymous
- “Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.” — Phyllis Diller
- “You know you’re getting old when Santa starts looking younger.” — Robert Paul
- “I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange.” — Henny Youngman
- “The only thing I love more than Christmas is the day after Christmas when everything is on sale.” — Anonymous
- “Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings… But I still can’t find my car keys.” — It’s a Wonderful Life (parody adaptation)
Holiday Season Quotes
- “Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Let your heart be light. From now on your troubles will be out of sight.” — “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
- “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” — Elf
- “Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.” — Robert Lynd
- “Christmas can’t be bought from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more.” — Dr. Seuss
- “Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.” — Helen Steiner Rice
- “And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans—and all that lives and move upon them.” — Sigrid Undset
- “Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.” — Stephen Graham Jones
- “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know. Where the treetops glisten and children listen, to hear sleigh bells in the snow.” — “White Christmas”
- “The reality of loving God is loving him like he’s a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.” — Criss Jami
- “The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.” — Richard Paul Evans
- “Christmas Eve will find me, where the lovelight gleams. I’ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams.” — “I’ll be Home for Christmas”
- “The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.” — Louisa May Alcott
- “May your days be merry and bright.” — White Christmas
- “Christmas was definitely the best thing ever, even better than pizza. But instead of all her favorite toppings, Amitola was surrounded by all her favorite people.” — Aishabella Sheikh
- “He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake. He knows when you’ve been bad or good, so be good, for goodness sake!” — “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”
- The smels of Christmas are the smells of childhood.” — Richard Paul Evans
- “Christmas can’t be bought from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more.” — Dr. Seuss
- “Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Let your heart be light. From now on your troubles will be out of sight.” — “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
- “Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.” — Helen Steiner Rice
- “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” — Elf
Conclusion
These heartwarming quotes capture the true spirit of Christmas. As you celebrate this season, let them remind you to cherish your loved ones, spread joy, and keep your heart open to the magic of the holidays. Wishing you a merry and meaningful Christmas!
