1. “We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365.”

— Mary Martin

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

— Francis of Assisi

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

— Mother Teresa

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6. “God bless us, every one!”

— Charles Dickens

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7. “God’s present is his presence. His greatest gift is himself.”

— Max Lucado

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8. “In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.”

— Christina Rossetti

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9. “Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man.”

— Pope Francis

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

— Charles Dickens

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12. “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”

— Charles M. Schulz

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13. “To celebrate the heart of Christmas is to forget ourselves in the service of others.”

— Henry C. Link

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14. “Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold!”

— Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

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15. “Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.”

— Janice Maeditere

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

— Dale Evans

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17. “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”

— Roy L. Smith

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18. “Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.”

— Mary Ellen Chase

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19. “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

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20. “So every year when Christmas comes, I realize a new, the best gift life can offer is having friends like you.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

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21. “It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”

— W.T. Ellis

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22. “Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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24. “Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.”

— Ruth Carter Stapleton

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25. “The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.”

— William Carey Jones

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26. “Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.”

— Edwin Louis Cole

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27. “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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28. “Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”

— Washington Irving

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29. “Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”

— Peg Bracken

30. “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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31. “I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.”

— Bernard Manning

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32. “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

33. “Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!”

— Charles Dickens

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34. “There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.”

— Erma Bombeck

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35. “At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.”

— Thomas Tusser

36. “A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”

— Garrison Keillor

37. “Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.”

— Lenora Mattingly Weber

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38. “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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39. “The real message of Christmas is not the gifts that we give to each other. Rather, it is a reminder of the gift that God has given to each of us. It is the only gift that truly keeps on giving.”

— Greg Laurie

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40. “Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.”

— Dr. Seuss