21 Quotes about the Spirit of Christmas to share

– Freya Stark
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Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

– Oren Arnold
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Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.

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

– Charles Dickens
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Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself.

– Norman Wesley Brooks
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When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness.

– Bob Hope
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Peace on Earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.

– Helen Steiner Rice
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No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal all hearts
And everyone would have a friend,
Right would always win,
Love would never end.
This is my grown-up Christmas list.

– Amy Grant
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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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Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.

– Dale Evans Rogers
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One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.

– Andy Rooney
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He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

– Roy L. Smith
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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

– Norman Vincent Peale
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You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it’s so worth it.

– Caroline Kennedy
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They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart.

– Paul M. Ell
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Santa Claus is anyone who loves another and seeks to make them happy; who gives himself by thought or word or deed in every gift that he bestows.

– Edwin Osgood Grover
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Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

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

– Margaret Thatcher
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Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

– Charles Schulz
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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
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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