Advent Christmas Quotes:

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Letting Go, Christmas Eve, God Love, Christmas Time, Warm Christmas

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

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

topic: Christmas, Blessed, World, Humorous Christmas, Gifts Of The Spirit

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Christmas, Doors, Cells, Prison Cells, Advent Christmas

Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.

- Bill McKibben

topic: Running, Advent, Footsteps, Advent Christmas

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

topic: Christmas, Holiday, Simple, Loving Others, Joy Of Giving

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

- Oren Arnold

topic: Tolerance, Enemy, Opponents, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

This Advent we look to the Wise Men to teach us where to focus our attention. We set our sights on things above, where God is. We draw closer to Jesus... When our Advent journey ends, and we reach the place where Jesus resides in Bethlehem, may we, like the Wise Men, fall on our knees and adore him as our true and only King.

- Mark Zimmermann

topic: Christmas, Wise, Jesus, Jesus And Christmas, Bethlehem

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

- William Thomas Ellis

topic: Christmas, Heart, Air, Gifts Of The Spirit, Family Holiday

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

- Charles Dickens

topic: Love, Christmas, Heart, Humorous Christmas, Family Holiday

How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.

- William Gurnall

topic: Kings, Humble, Soul, Advent Christmas

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Christmas, Sweet, Men, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it?

- Walter Wangerin

source: Walter Wangerin (1989). “The manger is empty: stories in time”, Harpercollins

topic: Echoes, Swim, Elements, Advent Christmas

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Inspirational, Family, Happy, Humorous Christmas, Gifts Of The Spirit

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

- Phillips Brooks

topic: Christmas, Song, Angel, Meaningful Christmas, Inspirational Holiday

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

- Dale Evans

topic: Love, Marriage, Christmas, Gifts Of The Spirit, Christmas Time

Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.

- Charlaine Harris

topic: Creatures, St Nicholas, Christmas Day, Christmas Holiday, Dry Leaves

Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.

- William Saroyan

topic: Christmas, Children, Eye, Children Christmas, Eyes Of A Child

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Christmas, Holiday, Together, Humorous Christmas, Jesus Christmas

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

- Bernard Manning

topic: Christmas, Kids, Batteries, Humorous Christmas, Inspirational Holiday

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

- Clement Clarke Moore

source: 1822 The Night Before Christmas.

topic: Christmas, Night, House, St Nicholas, Stirring

God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.334

topic: Peace, Sleep, Men, Peace On Earth, Christmas Prayer

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts.

- Joan Winmill Brown

topic: Heart, Joy, Meaningful Christmas, Inspirational Holiday, Merry

This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

- John Milton

source: 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' (1645) st. 1

topic: Christmas, Mother, Kings, Christmas Thoughts, Advent Christmas

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

- William Jewett Tucker

topic: Christmas, Cheer, Home, Family Holiday, Christmas Time

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

- Victor Borge

topic: Funny, Christmas, Witty, Humorous Christmas, Merry Christmas Cards