Top 20 Inspirational Christmas Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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2. “Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

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3. “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

— Charles Dickens

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4. “My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”

— Bob Hope

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5. “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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6. “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”

— Charles Dickens

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7. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

— Mother Teresa

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8. “For it is in giving that we receive.”

— Francis of Assisi

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9. “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”

— Mother Teresa

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10. “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

— Mother Teresa

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11. “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”

— Francis of Assisi

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12. “Happy day after Christmas and a merry rest of the year! Even when Christmas is over, the light of the world is still here.”

— Matthew West

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13. “Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”

— Dale Evans

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14. “The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”

— Mother Teresa

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15. “Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

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16. “Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.”

— Mother Teresa

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17. “Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down.”

— Pope Francis

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18. “One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”

— Mother Teresa

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19. “One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.”

— Mother Teresa

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20. “It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.”

— Mother Teresa

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21. “Advent is patience. It’s how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.”

— Stanley Hauerwas