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I love making my own seasonal cards so collecting Christmas Holiday quotes and short greetings for those is part of making the designs special and unique.

Finding just the right words and sentiments to use for the Holiday season is just as important as the design of the card itself. On this quotations page, you'll find many of my collected favorite sayings, sentiments and short verses just perfect for Christmas.

All of these Christmas Holiday quotes for cards are handily organized for you. There are categories for you to enjoy including funny, religious, heartwarming quotations and more.

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Christmas Holiday Quotes for Cards and Short Greetings for Verses and Wording

There are plenty of Christmas Holiday quotes to choose from on this page. You'll find quotations here for finishing your cards, adding to your scrapbook memories and even for getting yourself in the jolly mood of the season. There are loads of short festive greetings and verses for you to enjoy.

1) Favorite Selection of Heartwarming Christmas Holiday Quotes

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

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

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

Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age. ~ Carrie Latet

This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. ~ Taylor Caldwell

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Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. ~ Janice Maeditere

The one season of the year when we can lay aside all gnawing worry, indulge in sentiment without censure, assume the carefree faith of childhood, and just plain ‘have fun.’ Whether they call it Yuletide, Noel, Weinachten, or Christmas, people around the earth thirst for its refreshment as the desert traveller for the oasis. ~ D.D. Monroe

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

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. ~ Harlan Miller

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

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

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! ~ Hamilton Wright Mabie

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. ~ Larry Wilde

At Christmas

A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;

He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season’s here;

Then he’s thinking more of others than he’s thought the months before,

And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for.

He is less a selfish creature than at any other time;

When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime… ~ Edgar Guest

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

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles. ~ Author Unknown

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

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

2) Love Themed Seasonal Holiday Sentiments

Can I get a Picture of You so that I can show Santa what I want for Christmas? ~ Author Unknown

Remember, this December, that love weighs more than gold. ~ Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas. ~ Dale Evans

Nothing else will do. All I want is you this Christmas ~ N Sync

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

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most. ~ Ruth Carter Stapleton

Christmas isn't a season.

It’s a feeling

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?

Love is a circle that goes on and on and on.

Selfishness makes Christmas a burden;

Love makes it a delight. ~ Author Unknown

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. ~ Janice Maeditere

From home to home

and heart to heart

from one place to another.

The warmth and joy of Christmas,

bring us closer to each other. ~ Emily Matthews

Don’t be surprised if a BIG fat red man comes down your chimney and puts you in a black sack … I told Santa I want you for Christmas. ~ Author Unknown

3) Funny Christmas Quotations to Enjoy

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Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas. ~ Johnny Carson

The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband. ~ Joan Rivers

If TV has taught me anything, it’s that miracles always happen to poor kids at Christmas. It happened to Tiny Tim, it happened to Charlie Brown, it happened to the Smurfs, and it’s going to happen to us. ~ Bart Simpson

Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money. ~ Author Unknown Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included. ~ Author Unknown

It is every little girl’s dream to be

The fairy on a Christmas tree.

A wand in her hand,

A smile on her face.

And a tree in a most peculiar place. ~ Spike Milligan

Christmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ. ~ Bart Simpson

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

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it. ~ Richard Lamm

Do they still make wooden Christmas Trees? ~ Charles Schulz

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

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer…. Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? ~ Bill Watterson

There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus. ~ Bob Phillips

Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. ~ Kin Hubbard

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4) Holiday Sentiments and Shorter Christmas Quotes for Cards

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As someone who makes handmade greetings cards as a hobby, I understand the need for short verses and quotes that work best on the inside of a card.

So here’s a nice selection of short phrases which you can make use of non-commercially in all your paper craft projects.

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! ~ Author Unknown

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is. ~ Eric Sevareid

At Christmas play and make good cheer,

For Christmas comes but once a year ~ Thomas Tusser

May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,

The gladness of Christmas give you hope,

The warmth of Christmas grant you love. ~ Author Unknown

Be merry all, be merry all,

With holly dress the festive hall;

Prepare the song, the feast, the ball,

To welcome merry Christmas. ~ William Robert Spencer

Peace on earth will come to stay,

When we live Christmas every day. ~ Helen Steiner Rice

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a Merry Christmas! ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

Through a frosty winter night

In a sleigh with reindeer flight

Bringing joy to large and small

Merry Christmas one and all. ~ Author Unknown

May this Christmas

find you surrounded by those you love

and those who love you. ~ Author Unknown

5) Religious Christmas Season Quotes

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When I was a little girl, I used to love Mom's special nativity set coming out because it meant that Christmas was just round the corner. It was a very ornate set and I was never allowed to touch the pieces but would sit looking at all the little figures.

As I got older, I discovered the nativity story and Mom would read this to us in front of the fire. I have wonderful memories of this time of year as a child and I think that all children can get enjoyment out of a nativity set and learning about the stories behind why we celebrate this day.

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

Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth,

And there He lives and dies. ~ Alfred Noyes

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. ~ Calvin Coolidge

I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses. ~ Taylor Caldwell

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

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

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. ~ Charles Dickens

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~ Charles Dickens

It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses. ~ George William Curtis

It is the Christmas time:

And up and down ‘twixt heaven and earth,

In glorious grief and solemn mirth,

The shining angels climb. ~ Dinah Maria Mulock

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ~ Washington Irving

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven’s making. ~ Leigh Hunt

At Christmas-tide the open hand

Scatters its bounty o’er sea and land,

And none are left to grieve alone

For Love is heaven and claims its own. ~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

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? ~ G.K. Chesterton

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