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Inspirational 2017 Merry Christmas Quotes, Wishes & Sayings

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Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions. – Ellen Hopkins

Christmas celebrates the awesome and amazing fact that God is grander, wiser and more mysterious than we could have ever imagined. – Dan Schaeffer

Have yourself a merry Christmas. – Chickentuna, Wishes Quotes

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph. – Shirley Temple

Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing… to stay alive for them. – Sylvie Meis

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? – Gilbert K. Chesterton

I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don’t watch what I eat. It’s not like you have Christmas every day! – Adriana Lima

Merry be your Christmas. Peaceful be your home. Joyful be your family, blessed be each one. – Unskinnyboppy

Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. – Orson Welles

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

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. – Augustine

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’. – Bing Crosby

You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father’s face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift. – John R. Rice

Let me see if I understand this right. You want me to sit put presents under a dead tree and eat candy out of my socks. And you think I’m the one that is strange? – Assorted Authors

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. – Lauren Conrad

I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange. – Henny Youngman

Isn’t that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read. – Wayne Swan

 

 

The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world. – Jay Parini

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear. – Will Ferrell, Elf, Becoming Martha

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that’s set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God’s gift of the Christ child. – Amy Grant

‘The Christmas Song,’ by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I’ve never sung it, because Nat’s version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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

Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day. – Helen Steiner Rice

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends. – Margaret Thatcher

I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it’s a healthy outlet for them. If they weren’t covering their lawns with twinkling lights, they’d be doing something that was really, really creepy. – Lewis Black

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That’s what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep… Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such. – B. B. King

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. – Dag Hammarskjold

I started making music… I guess I was 12, and I started playing ‘Guitar Hero.’ And you know, it got to a point where on expert, you can only exceed to a certain point. And so, you know, I was like, ‘Let’s play real guitar. Let’s not waste more time.’ So, I got my mom, I told her to buy me a guitar for Christmas, and I started making music then. – Post Malone

Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother’s arms. King of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph. Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter’s despised son. – Charles Spurgeon

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection. – Pindar

New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. – Charles Lamb

I like to think I’m like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning. – Don Rickles

Bad luck either destroys you or makes you the man or woman you really are.. Merry Christmas to you.. – Amitabh BACHAN

 

 

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. – T. S. Eliot

The term ‘natural resources’ confuses people. ‘Natural resources’ are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created. – Alex Tabarrok

It’s not what’s under the Christmas tree that matters, it’s who is around it. – Makobiscribe

I’ve been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It’s very important to give back as a youth. It’s as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant. – Queen Latifah

We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can’t remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn’t include books. – Alexandra Adornetto

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles. – Edwin Louis Cole

I’ve always loved Christmas and that’s not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It’s always a magical time and I’m unashamed in my love for Christmas. – Martin Freeman

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. – Queen Elizabeth II

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

Our God is the God of the unexpected. A few things could be more unexpected than the King of heaven being born in a stable. – Bil Crowder

In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, ‘Do you ever have snow at all?’ as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. ‘Ooo, I do remember snow,’ was the usual reply, ‘when I were a lad.’ – Sylvia Plath

Don’t let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. – Taylor Caldwell

If I don’t see you under the Christmas tree, I’ll be going back to bed! – Assorted Authors

I do a lot of the cooking before Christmas – but then I usually spend a lot of Christmas cooking too. All the smells, all of the mulled wine, all of the trimmings for the turkey! – Gwyneth Paltrow

Once I found out that I was playing ‘Deathlok,’ I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there. – J. August Richards

Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It’s a holiday for the family and for everyone. – Melissa Etheridge

The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation. – J.I. Packer

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