Christmas Inspiration Pictures 1

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

-Roy L. Smith

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

-Joel Osteen

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

-Edna Ferber

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

-Thomas S. Monson

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

-Vincent Peale

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

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

-Dr. Seuss

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

-Charles Dickens

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

-Richard Roeper

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

-Thomas S. Monson

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

-Alexander Smith

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

-Winston Churchill

November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.

-F. Sionil Jose

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

-Thomas Tusser

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

-Freya Stark

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

I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!

-Joe Nichols

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

-Alice Cooper

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

-David Cameron

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God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

-Pope Francis

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

-Taylor Caldwell

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

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

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

-Garrison Keillor

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

-Dale Evans

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

-Pope Francis

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

-Caroline Kennedy

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

-Queen Elizabeth II

I'm not going to tell you to meditate on what Christmas really means and be thankful.

-Monica Johnson

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

-B. C. Forbes

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

-Bing Crosby

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

-Jay Leno

Mery Christmas

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

-Lucinda Franks

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

-Chris Van Allsburg

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.

-Thomas S. Monson

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

-Karl Rahner

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

-Charles Dudley Warner

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

-Dave Barry

Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.

-Ellen DeGeneres

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Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

-John Waters

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

-Marcelene Cox

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

-Pindar

What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps.

-Thomas S. Monson

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

-Mo Rocca

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

-William Tecumseh Sherman

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

-Jerry Falwell

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

-Stephen Fry

There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

-Ice Cube

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

-Clarence Clemons

When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit.

-Jeff Dunham

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

-Christopher Hitchens

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

-Jane Elliot

Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family.

-Samantha Isler