The Christmas season is here, and now we’re all doing our best to prepare for the special day! Decoring our home with a Christmas theme, cooking up batches of holiday cookies, and shopping for the perfect gifts. But all those things won’t be perfect if we don’t also give a few meaningful Christmas messages to our family members. That’s why these Inspirational Christmas quotes for family are here to remind them to slow down a bit and ponder the meaning of Christmas.
Many of us have family traditions and games we play on Christmas day that creates special memories that evoke the true Christmas spirit for us, you can include these Christmas quotes and sayings and incorporate them into your traditions.
Not only will help get you in the holiday spirit, but these inspirational Christmas quotes are also a great way to experience moments of peace, joy, love, and gratitude during the busy holiday season.
Whether you plan to write them in Christmas cards or use these words as Christmas captions for holiday photos on social media, for personal reflection, or just sharing while listening to your favorite Christmas songs (like white Christmas) in the living room, this collection of inspirational Christmas quotes for the family will make your Christmas time filled with joy, good cheer, and lots of love.
Happy Christmas and Happy Holidays!
50 Inspirational Christmas Quotes for Family
1. “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” – Romans 15:13
2. “Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season.“ – Thomas S. Monson
3. “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
4. “God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God’s work to save the world.” – Adam Hamilton
5. “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
6. “Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” – Dale Evans
7. “Christmas is, of course, the time to be home – in heart as well as body.” – Garry Moore
8. “Don’t let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.” – Taylor Caldwell
9. “My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.” – Thomas S. Monson
10. “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
11. “Christmas… is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.” – Freya Stark
12. “Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.” – Bryan White
13. “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
14. “The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn’t matter what mood you’re in or what kind of a year you’ve had – it’s a fresh start.” – Kelly Clarkson
15. “I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another, it’s about the Christian ethic, it’s about kindness.” – Carrie Fisher
16. “Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” – Edna Ferber
17. “Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today’s Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.” – Gladys Taber
18. “Christmas for me is a time for being close to my family and those close to me.” – Tarja Turunen
19. “There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart – and our neighbors as ourselves.” – Thomas S. Monson
20. “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” – Norman Vincent Peale
21. “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens
22. “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
23. “Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” – Alexander Smith
24. “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” – Benjamin Franklin
25. “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
26. “Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.” – J. C. Ryle
27. “Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It’s a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.” – Gisele Bundchen
28. “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” – Winston Churchill
29. “That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.” – Jerry Seinfeld
30. “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
31. “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” – Roy L. Smith
32. “Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years…Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.” – George Matthew Adams
33. “Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” – Washington Irving
34. “The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.” – Charles Dudley Warner
35. “A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” – Garrison Keillor
36. “Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.” – Pindar
37. “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
38. “What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, and hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.” – Agnes M. Pharo
39. “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” – Burton Hillis
40. “Somehow, not only for Christmas,
But all the long year through,
The joy that you give to others,
Is the joy that comes back to you.
And the more you spend in blessing,
The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart’s possessing,
Returns to you glad.” – John Greenleaf Whittier
41. “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” – Charles M. Schulz
42. “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” – Hamilton Wright Mabie
43. “Christmas – that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance – a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.” – Augusta E. Rundel
44. “It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” – W. T. Ellis
45. “Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words.” – Harlan Miller
46. “Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.” – Phyllis Diller
47. “And in our world of plenty
We can spread a smile of joy
Throw your arms around the world
At Christmastime.” – Bob Geldof and Midge Ure
48. “And so this is Christmas and what have you done
Another year over, a new one just begun
And so this is Christmas, I hope you have fun
The near and the dear ones, the old and the young.” – John Lennon and Yoko Ono
49. “As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
50. “The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him…” – John 1:9-10
Those are some of the best wishes you can share with your family, they may not be the best gift alone but they can still be a gift of love with the other presents to this wonderful Christmas.
I hope the magic of Christmas make your good times with your loved ones hopeful and bring laughter and smile together this festive season. Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Leave a Reply