Christmas Card Quotes

• Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. - Charles Schulz
• 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 Mathew Adams
• 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 a melody that would last forever. - Bess Streeter Aldrich
• A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year… These make a Merry Christmas! - John Greenleaf Whittier
• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. - Garrison Keillor
• Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; teach us to be patient and always to be kind. - Helen Steiner Rice
• 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
• Christmas is not a time or a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous with mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. Clavin Coolidge-
• The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each other’s' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas. - W. C. Jones
• I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the word seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses. - Taylor Caldwell
• Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. - Norman Vincent Peale
• Christmas… that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance -- a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved. - Augusta Rundel
• A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small. - Eva K. Logue
• I sincerely hope your Christmas in Hertfordshire may abound in the gaieties which that season generally brings, and that your beaux will be so numerous as to prevent your feeling the loss of the three of whom we shall deprive you. - Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
• They performed last Christmas in a French piece, by Alexandre Dumas, I believe–’La Duchesse de Montefiasco,’ of which I forget the plot, but everybody was in love with everybody else’s wife, except the hero, Don Alonzo, who was ardently attached to the Duchess, who turned out to be his grandmother. - William Makepeace Thackeray (Our Street)
• Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amids the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away. - Charles Dickens, (The Pickwick Papers)
• A little before twilight, one Christmas Eve, Gabriel shouldered his spade, lighted his lantern, and betook himself towards the old churchyard; for he had got a grave to finish next morning, and feeling very low, he thought it might raise his spirits, perhaps, if he went on with his work at once. - Charles Dickens (The Pickwick Papers)