"If Christmas were just the birthday of a great teacher, like Socrates or Buddha, it would never have split time into two, so that all history before the advent of Christ is called B.C. and all history after, A.D." — Fulton J. Sheen”
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Christmas Quotes
500 FAMOUS QUOTES · CHRISTMAS
Christmas Quotes
Discover 500 Christmas quotes from famous authors, leaders and stars, with inspiring, funny, family and faith sayings to share in cards and holiday posts.
"We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice." — Pope Paul VI”
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"There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter." — Gordon B. Hinckley”
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"My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it." — Thomas S. Monson”
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"Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise." — Karl Rahner”
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"I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything." — Billy Graham”
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"Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept." — J. C. Ryle”
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"The word of God is very important to Christmas. For unto us a child was born, and we should be reminded of how Christ's amazing journey came to be." — Monica Johnson”
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"During the weeks before Christmas, though it's not always possible, we make an effort to keep the kids away from shopping malls and stores. We also deliberately choose cards and decorations that have religious significance." — Rachel Campos-Duffy”
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"For the millions of Americans, like my family, who believe that there is a creator God who can be known personally, Christmas is a celebration of Jesus' offer of love and forgiveness for all people." — James Lankford”
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"The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie; you don't want to watch it 15 times." — Frederica Mathewes-Green”
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"I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and my brothers and I love to go to The Mountain Opry when we are home. There is alway an abundance of laughter and joy, and anyone can get up on stage and dance and sing. My family also goes to a candlelight service at church on Christmas Eve. It's such a wonderful way to spend the night before Christmas." — Rachel Boston”
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"We are each one on a road going toward home, but we're not trying to get there for Christmas. We're trying to get there for eternity. We want to arrive home safely to our loving Father in Heaven. He wants us to make it safely there, so He has sent a guiding light for us to follow: a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect example." — Margaret D. Nadauld”
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"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!" — Benjamin Franklin”
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"Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog." — Philip Yancey”
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"One of the things that Christmas reminds us is that Jesus Christ was once a child." — Hark Herald Sarmiento”
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"For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last." — Frederick Buechner”
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"Jesus, let me see You in the manger and remember that the hope of the world rests in the shadow of the Cross behind it." — Allene vanOirschot”
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"Jesus Christ is the reason for the Christmas Season." — Brenda Mohammed”
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"In celebrating Christmas, we were not just remembering, we were reliving the fact that God had become one of us." — Lanier Ivester”
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"Yes, we want Christmas to be a happy time, a celebration, even, but that’s not how it works. We don’t have Christmas for the happy times. We have Christmas—we were given Christmas—because we need Someone to wipe away our tears." — Courtney Ranger”
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"You will finally come to understand the gift of Christmas once you realize that you are in desperate need of that gift and that you have no means whatsoever to give it to yourself." — Craig D. Lounsbrough”
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"Christmas is the door that was ingeniously designed for walls that were not built for doors." — Craig D. Lounsbrough”
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"Like the figures in the manger scene Mother had given her, Jesus didn't need to be kept at a distance, but enjoyed and loved." — Lynn Austin”
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"Jesus comes into this world as a helpless infant. Will He find room in your heart this Christmas?" — Allene vanOirschot”
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