Christmas Prayer Quotes:

My Christmas prayer is that I would remain close to God, and He close to me. With all the suffering in the world today, there is the temptation to fall to fear… we need to be near the Lord.. we need the Hope of Christmas.

- Don Moen

source: "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life". Book by Shantideva, www.huffingtonpost.com. c. 700 AD.

topic: Prayer, Fall, Temptation, Christmas Prayer

Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts. And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace....

- Frank Borman

source: Prayer from Apollo 8 on Christmas Day, December 25, 1968.

topic: Love You, Heart, Ignorance, Christmas Prayer

Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Wise, Song, Jesus, Jesus Birth, Christmas Prayer

Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.

- Helen Steiner Rice

topic: Christmas, Mind, Be Kind, Humorous Christmas, Jesus And 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 very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.

- Billy Graham

topic: Christmas, Heart, Sacrifice, Warm Christmas, Christmas Gift

Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!

- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

topic: Christmas, Gold, December, Christmas Card, Christmas Gift

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

- Oren Arnold

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

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

- Phillips Brooks

source: Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Sermons for the principal festivals and fasts of the church year, ed. by Rev John Cotton Brooks”

topic: Christmas, Xmas, Joy, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

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

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.

- Ray Stannard Baker

source: Ray Stannard Baker (1910). “Adventures in Friendship”

topic: Healing, Thinking, Years, Christmas Time, Inspirational Holiday

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

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

topic: Christmas, Gratitude, Children, Christmas Time, Inspirational Holiday

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

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

- Pope John XXIII

topic: Christmas, Heart, Mankind, Family Holiday, Jesus And Christmas

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

- Peg Bracken

topic: Christmas, Time And Love, Ingredients, Family Holiday, Christmas Time

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

And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "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, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.476, Library of America

topic: Christmas, Song, Strong, Peace On Earth, Christmas Prayer

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Christmas, Funny Christmas, Littles, Gifts Of The Spirit, Family Holiday

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

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

- Carolyn Wells

topic: Christmas, Years, Giving, Merry, Merry Christmas Cards

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

topic: Christmas, Children, Heart, Family Holiday, Inspirational Holiday

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

- Alexander Smith

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