Life Celebration Quotes
Quick Note
Some authors are cited repeatedly.
I cut what I could to keep to 100 but so many of these were so deeply meaningful and touching it felt a sin to refrain from sharing with you.
Because of this, there are more than 100 devotional quotes below.
Merry Christmas!
Alexander Smith
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
Ann Garnett Schultz
Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.
Bamigboye Olurotimi
Christmas is more than rice and chicken, it's all about Jesus Christ and the new life he came to the world to give to mankind.
Bil Keane
God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.
C.S. Lewis
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
Calvin Coolidge
To the American People: 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. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
If we fictionalize the story of Christmas as some fanciful tale spun
in the backwaters of history and people long removed, in that action we have succumb to the debilitating belief that the
only viable idea of rescue is fiction. And I can think
of few things that are sadder than that.
When Christmas has passed, if I find that I am none the better for having engaged it, the only explanation that I can muster up is that I can be handed the greatest of gifts, yet still have the emptiest of hands. And finding myself in that dreadful condition, I am left to assume that the fool within me has chosen to live with the hands that now define me instead of embracing the God Who wishes to fill me.
Heaven is where Christmas came from. And if we give it permission to do so, someday it will take us back there with it.
On that first Christmas morning, the cries of this newborn were ignored by
a world off to greater agendas from which this child would rise to save us.
Christmas is not a story of hope.
It is hope.
Christmas is God dreaming
of something ingeniously outrageous and refusing to let the unimaginable magnitude of such a dream and the scrutiny that it is certain to endure impede the implementation of the dream. And is Christmas not God saying‚ ”Go and do likewise?”
Christmas does not invite you to something that happened in history. Rather, Christmas is God inviting you to something that’s already shaping your eternity.
The greatest gift in any gift is that there was someone who loved us so much that they simply could not keep themselves from giving the gift to us. And by far, the best example of that ‘someone’ is God, and the thing that He couldn’t keep Himself from giving us
was Christmas.
Jesus was born into a feeding trough that nourished the bodies of animals so that He could feed the souls of men.
I believe in Christmas because God is the only Being I know Who is so utterly selfless as to do such a thing, and so incredibly ingenious as to figure out how to do it.
It was His love for us that cost Him everything. And that is the essence of Christmas that should be the substance of our lives.
Christmas is God handing us a dream that’s beyond our imagination and then gifting us with resources that are beyond our imagination so that we can make that dream real beyond our imagination.
Every gift that we will ever receive, bar one, will die ‘with us.’ The only gift that died ‘for us’ so that nothing ever need die ‘with us’ is the gift that God handed us on Christmas. And as for me, I done with all the dying.
Who in the world would walk into the very things that we created in order to save us from what we created by dying right in the middle of what we created? God did it by creating something called Christmas.
The phenomenally improbable message of Christmas is that everything that we were convinced was a defeat is in fact a victory
in the making.
To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it.
For once in my life maybe I ought to actually think about taking God at His word, and in doing so to suddenly find myself riotously welcoming the rather shocking reality that Christmas is truly everything that He says it is.
Christmas is God saving mankind from the folly of mankind’s grandiose sense of greatness.
Criss Jami
The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Advent creates people, new people.
Dinah Craik
God rest ye, merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas day.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
They crossed the boundary from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day within that timeless void where Earthly rotations meant nothing, the one true everlasting Silent Night.
Eric Sevareid
As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.
Felicia Hemans
Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high,Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?
Frank Laubach
When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes.
Frederick Buechner
For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.
Fulton J. Sheen
But there was no room at the inn; the inn is the gathering
place of public opinion; so often public opinion
locks its doors to the King.
Only two classes of people found the Babe: the shepherds and the Wise Men; the simple and the learned; those who knew that they knew nothing, and those who knew that they did not know everything. He is never seen by the man of one book; never by the man who thinks he knows. Not even God can tell the proud anything! Only the humble can find God!
Guy Wetmore Carryl
O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!
Hark Herald Sarmiento
One of the things that Christmas reminds us is that Jesus Christ was once a child.
Henrietta Newton Martin
Christmas is for a day, its celebration for a season, but the joy of Christ and being part of that Hero of Christmas is eternal.
Celebrate Christ this Christmas!
Since Christmas is all about Christ, Christmas is all about 'giving', sharing and spreading joy.
Henry Hon
God became a real man, had a real birth, and had a real, physical body. This is an essential point of the Christian faith.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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, goodwill 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, goodwill to men!
Why not share this as a heartwarming gift?
Howard W. Hunter
If you desire to find the true spirit of Christmas and partake of the sweetness of it, let me make this suggestion to you. During the hurry of the festive occasion of this Christmas season, find time to turn your heart to God. Perhaps in the quiet hours, and in a quiet place, and on your knees - alone or with loved ones - give thanks for the good things that have come to you, and ask that His Spirit might dwell in you as you earnestly strive to serve Him and keep His commandments. He will take you by the hand and His promises will be kept.
J. Ruby
Don't limit your happiness to man-made luxurious life; God and Happiness are unlimited - Merry Christmas
James Behrens
For all of life is Christmas, an eternal gift from God.
James E. Talmage
The very purpose of Christ’s birth was to redeem us from our sins.
Jason Soroski
Somewhere beyond the Christmas hustle and bustle, there lies a child in a manger; somewhere beyond the noise, there is a Silent Night.
Jerusalem Jackson Greer
It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation... and instead to revel in the mystery.
Joshua Fields Millburn
When purchasing gifts becomes the focal point of the season, we lose focus on what's truly important.
Jostein Gaarder
I wonder whether the
Christmas feeling has anything to do with the sixth sense. Perhaps we're a little more the angels at Christmas than we are during the rest of the year. And Christmas is about all the other senses. I can smell Christmas, I can taste Christmas, and I can see and hear it.
Julie K. Hogan
Christmases are never the same. They change from year to year, and they are never really perfect, no matter how hard we try to force them to be so. What is perfect is the miracle in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago and the love of God that continues to burst through the chaos of human imperfection; Christmas is finding the Christ Child radiant beneath the daily grime of life.
Katherine J. Walden
Christmas has a deeper significance to followers of Jesus. It's not all about the gifts underneath Christmas trees or the elaborate meals served in extravagantly decorated homes. Christmas is the season of Immanuel. We celebrate the good news that He is near, that He cares for us, and that He transforms lives. His presence was the greatest present God gave mankind. May we be present carriers
of that presence!
Katy Kauffman
The angels heralded the birth of the Savior, John the Baptist heralded the coming of the Savior, and we herald the gospel of the Savior.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Without the charity of christ birth, can there be any Christmas?
There is no Christmas without a remembrance of the birth of Christ.
The salvation of mankind from sin by God himself begins with the birth of Jesus Christ, the Saviour.
Christmas is a rememberance of the birth of the Holy Child, the Saviour of all souls.
Enjoy the beauty, love and peace of a sacred Christmas.
Christmas is the spirit of love, peace and goodwill to all Humankind. It is within the reach of every heart and hand.
Christmas is holy celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. And God’s great love is the divinity of birth: the spirit of love,
joy and hope.
Christmas united us as holy beings. We experience love, joy and peace.
Every day is Christmas. Everyday Christ embraces us with His love,
peace and joy.
May we celebrate the sacredness of Christmas with joy, faith and hope.
Christmas is a holy time to rekindle our love for another.
Christmas is Christ love for mankind.
Leigh Hunt
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.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.
Lori Copeland
As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family. Tradition doesn't have to be logical; it only has to emphasize the light of Christ and his everlasting love.
Marjorie Holmes
It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.
Maud Lindsay
Oh! like a wreath, let Christmas mirth
To-day encircle all the earth
And bind the nations with the love
That Jesus brought from heaven above.
Max Lucado
Every gift reveals God's love... but no gift reveals his love more than the gifts of the cross. They came, not wrapped in paper, but in passion. Not placed around a tree, but a cross. And not
covered with ribbons, but sprinkled with blood.
Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out.
God is in the details. Look for Him at Christmas, in the stillness of the season.
Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez
Jesus soon is coming, and Christmas too, Good reason for being happy, Helping people to do.
Mother Teresa
At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern.
Patricia Davids
He does not require that we live a perfect life. He only requires that we try to live as He wills. The only way to fail Him is by giving up.
Philip Yancey
Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
Pope Francis
This gift of grace we receive through the simplicity and humanity of Christmas, can remove from our hearts and minds the pessimism.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Christmas is like softly-falling snow that covers the world
in a blanket of white so flawless and brilliant as to
make us pause to ponder the miracle.
The spirit of Christmas exists in harmonious carols like those sung by angels on the day of Christ’s birth.
It seems there's confusion at this time of year regarding the reason for Christmas.From shopping for presents to spreading good cheer,the world makes an overly huge fuss.But Christmas is not for the gifts we exchange.It's not about sleigh rides or sweet candy canes.Nay, Christmas is simple. A time to recall Christ's gift of atonement He gave to us all.
Born on straw at night under low stable rafters, Baby Jesus cried.
A new star, the Christ child, God's gift to mankind; these are what Christmas is made of.
Christmas, when observed with the right spirit, still has the power to call miracles from Heaven to Earth.
Christmas is our annual reminder to look up -pondering celestial stars, to look out - serving those in need, and to look down - glorifying our Lord in humble prayer.
Samuel Johnson
The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
Santosh Kumar
Jesus is in me, Jesus is in you, you must find it out, merry Christmas love and delight.
Sherryl Woods
The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends to you. The hope of a child-like heart to you. The joy of a thousand angels to you. The love of the Son and God's peace to you.
Sigrid Undset
And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans - and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.
Soraya Diase Coffelt
Did you know that Christmas means “Christ”?
St. Josemaría Escrivá
God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul.
Steve Maraboli
Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.
Susan Cooper
For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world.
Tim Keller
In this Christmas season, may we reflect on the love of Christ and the joy He brings to the world.
Thomas Moore
If you take Christmas to heart and get past the anxieties in arranging for gifts and parties, you will rediscover yourself every year at this time and experience a birth in yourself, just like the one so beautifully described in the Gospel stories. It will be a celebration of both the birth of Jesus and the birth of your soul.
Todd Crawshaw
I pray for a Merry Christmas. This is a time to remind us of the love we should be giving all year long.
Toni Sorenson
The brightest Christmas ever was lit by a single star
and swaddled in the most drab colors, but offered
mankind the greatest gift of all...
true and lasting love.
This holy season offer yourself forgiveness, offer others room to grow, offer life a chance to show you just how beautiful
it can unfold.
If you want to feel the spirit of Christmas, do what Christ did... love.
When you’re rearranging the furniture to make way for the decorations and the tree, make sure you rearrange your heart to make room for the Savior
of Mankind.
Christmas is about Christ. When we forget that, we lose the true magic of Christmas.
The reason for the season is Christ. Let’s not
forget that.
Truman Capote
Of course there is a Santa Claus. It’s just that no single somebody could do all he has to do. So the Lord has spread the task among us all. That’s why everybody is Santa Claus. I am. You are.
Vachel Lindsay
Except the Christ be born again tonightIn dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.
W. J. Cameron
There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.
Wesley Miller
Before God does anything, before he makes anything for us to be sustained by, God says, "More than food, more than water, more than shelter, more than other people, they are going
to need me.
