Christmas is here! Some of us have been anticipating it with joy and some perhaps with dread! And some of us couldn’t care either way.
None of our feelings about this day can take away from the true meaning and spirit of Christmas.
Today, I wish you the true meaning of Christmas and share some meaningful Christmas quotes with you.
Some meaningful Christmas Quotes
“It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.”
-Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round.”
– Jessica Archmint
“As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.”
– Eric Sevareid
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
– Charles Dickens
“Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.”
– Luke 2:10
“Because of his boundless love, Jesus became what we are that he might make us to be what he is.”
-Irenaeus
“Let us celebrate this day not because of the visible sun, but because of him who made this day.”
-Augustine
“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”
-W.T. Ellis
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
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.
– Christmas gift suggestions from Oren Arnold
Christmas has lost its meaning for us because we have lost the spirit of expectancy. We cannot prepare for an observance. We must prepare for an experience.
-Handel H. Brow
Christmas hath a beauty … lovelier than the world can show.
-Christina G. Rossetti
Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Christmas is for whoever is old enough to have denied the unquenchable spirit of man.
-Margaret Cousins
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 Tabor
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
Christmas is a time to expand our giving encompassing the friendless and needy … near and far. Christmas is sharing.
-Patricia Clafford
