“‘Tis the season to be jolly!” Yes, it’s that time of the year once again, a time for peace and goodwill to all men, sharing, love, and merrymaking!
Christmas to some people is the time for a pause. Keep your mind off the troubles and mundane attributes of life and get out of the “hustle and bustle” of everyday existence. To others, it is the opposite, being the rush of several social functions, family gatherings, Christmas parties, and frantic last-minute gift purchasing.
To some, it is the time to reacquaint oneself with the true meaning of the season: the celebration of Christ’s coming to the world to fulfill God’s promise of reconciliation with man. As such, it is the time when people seem to be kind and accommodating to others. It is a time for old friends to rekindle long-lost ties, to forgive petty infractions, and to reunite families torn asunder by misunderstandings.
Christmas is when surroundings are magically transformed into beautiful tinsel towns, adorned with glittering festive decors and bright shining lights. In some areas, the White Christmas theme is brought accurately to life, while in warmer climes, artificial snow is introduced to achieve the same effect. It’s the time to choose the best-looking pine trees and decorate them with colorful lights and ornaments fitting their purpose of guarding over many coveted treasures.
History Of Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is preceded by the season of Advent or the Nativity Fast and initiates the season of Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on the Twelfth Night; in some traditions, Christmastide includes an octave.
Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world‘s nations, is celebrated religiously by a majority of Christians, as well as culturally by many non–Christians, and forms an integral part of the holiday season centered around it. The traditional Christmas narrative, the Nativity of Jesus, delineated in the New Testament says that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in accordance with messianic prophecies.
When Joseph and Mary arrived in the city, the inn had no room and so they were offered a stable where the Christ Child was soon born, with angels proclaiming this news to shepherds who then further disseminated the information. The earliest known Christmas celebration was in Rome in 336. Christmas played a role in the Arian controversy of the fourth century. The feast was introduced at Constantinople in 379, and at Antioch in about 380, and by the end of the fifth century, it was widely celebrated in the East. By the end of the eighth century, the celebration of Christmas had spread all the way to Scandinavia.
Modern Christmas Traditions
The modern Christmas traditions, such as the Christmas tree, the Christmas wreath, the Yule log, the giving of gifts, and the arrival of Santa Claus, all have their roots in pre–Christian winter festivals. The celebratory customs associated in various countries with Christmas have a mix of pre–Christian, Christian, and secular themes and origins.
Popular modern customs of the holiday include gift giving, completing an Advent calendar or Advent wreath, Christmas music and caroling, lighting a Christingle, viewing a Nativity play, an exchange of Christmas cards, church services, a special meal, and the display of various Christmas decorations, including Christmas trees, Christmas lights, nativity scenes, garlands, wreaths, mistletoe, and holly.
In addition, several closely related and often interchangeable figures, known as Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, and Christkind, are associated with bringing gifts to children during the Christmas season and have their own body of traditions and lore.
The True Meaning Of Christmas
The true meaning of Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and to recognize the importance of his teachings in our lives. It is a time to come together with family and friends to share love, joy, and peace. It is also a time to reflect on the blessings we have received throughout the year and to give thanks for them.
To help you get in the holiday spirit do check out our best-collected Christmas quotes that will fill your heart with fun and joy to remind you why we celebrate this season.
Christmas Quotes
At Christmas, all roads lead home.
Marjorie Holmes
Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.
Andy Borowitz
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens
Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.
Victor Borge
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peal
My husband’s idea of getting the Christmas spirit is to become Scrooge.
Melanie White
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smit
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
Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.
Dr. Seuss
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and receipts for all major purchases.
Bridger Winegar
Christmas: the only time of year you can sit in front of a dead tree eating candy out of socks.
Anonymous
I haven’t taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin.
Winston Spear
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
Phyllis Diller
This holiday season, no matter what your religion is, please take a moment to reflect on why it’s better than all the other ones.
Guy Endore Kaiser
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
The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words that the government allows to be printed on any product: “Some assembly required.”
John Leo
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
Larry Wilde
Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
Kin Hubbard
Let’s be naughty and save Santa the trip.
Gary Allan
What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present.
Don Marquis
Santa Claus has the right idea – visit people only once a year.
Victor Borge
I hate the radio this time of year because they play “All I Want For Christmas Is You” like, every other song. And that’s just not enough.
Bridger Winegar
Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
Kin Hubbard
Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.
Erma Bombeck
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison Keillor
I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange.
Henny Youngman
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison Keillor
That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
Jerry Seinfeld
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas. But if the white runs out I’ll drink the red.
Anonymous
Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey
Three Wise WOMEN would have asked directions, arrived on time, helped deliver the baby, bought practical gifts, cleaned the stable, made a casserole, and there would be peace on earth!
Anonymous
For Christmas this year, try giving less. Start with less attitude. There’s more than enough of that in the world as it is – and people will usually just give it back anyway!
Anne Bristow
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
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple
Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.
Stephen Graham Jones
Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas. You know, the birth of Santa?
Matt Groening
Christmas Eve, a perfect night to express affection for your family, to forgive those who failed you, and to forget past mistakes.
Unknown
Let me see if I’ve got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn’t laundering illegal drug money?
Tom Armstrong
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Burton Hillis
Who’s the bane of Santa’s life? The elf and safety officer.
Catherine Tate
From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.
Emily Matthews
Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What’s in that pipe that he’s smoking?
Arlo Guthrie
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
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 LammAt Christmas, all roads lead home.
Marjorie Holmes
Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.
Tom Sims
Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.
Carol Nelson
The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.
Joan Rivers
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.
Will Ferrell, “Elf”
Many banks have a new kind of Christmas club in operation. The new club helps you save money to pay for last year’s gifts.
Author Unknown
May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas eve.
Anonymous
I bought my brother some gift wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.
Steven Wright
Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from the store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more!
The Grinch, by Dr Seuss
Be careful with drinking this Christmas. I got so drunk last night I found myself dancing in a cheesy bar… or, as you like to call it, delicatessen.
Sean Hughes
It’s not what’s under the Christmas tree that matters, it’s who is around it.
Anonymous
Christmas, here again. Let us raise a loving cup; Peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
Wendy Cope
Christmas Prayer: Guardian angel pure and bright, please lead Santa here tonight.
Unknown
Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
Alan Bradley
Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.
Richelle Goodrich
Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money.
Author Unknown
Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it – You feel it. You know it. You believe it.
Kevin Alan Milne
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith
Christmas isn’t about candy canes or lights all aglow, it’s the hearts that we touch, and the care that we show.
Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas
People can’t concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces properly if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.
Ogden Nash
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
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
John B. Priestly
Love is what is in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.
Anon
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
Fred Rogers
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
Peg Bracken
Elf’ has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, ‘This could be the last movie I ever make,’ and I could never have predicted that it’d become such a popular film.
Will Ferrell
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Write Mabie
Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.
Dave Berry
Love the giver more than the gift.
Brigham Young
Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Frank McKinney Hubbard
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.
Dale Evans
As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.
Donald E. Westlake
Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine, Love was born at Christmas, Star and Angels gave the sign.
Christina Rossetti
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.
Author Unknown
May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace, the gladness of Christmas give you hope, the warmth of Christmas grant you love.
Anon
A Christmas shopper’s complaint is one of long-standing.
Author Unknown
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale
The magi, as you know, were wise men — wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
O. Henry
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
Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
Jon Anderson
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
Peg Bracken
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
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.
Janice Maeditere
Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included.
Author Unknown
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
Christmas and the New Year are actually two holidays. So there is a plural, which in the English language, necessitates the use of ‘s.’ I suppose you could say ‘Merry Christmas’ and ‘Happy New Year,’ but you probably have sh*t to do.
Jon Stewart
Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.
Valentine Davies (Miracle on 34th Street)
I left Santa gluten-free cookies and organic soy milk and he put a solar panel in my stocking.
Author Unknown
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
Thomas Tusser
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
Christmas Celebrations
Christmas would not be complete without the season’s carols and songs. Be it the traditional classics or the more modern tunes. The first few bars fill your ears and hearts with angelic melodies that warm your whole being. You can hear them being sung by carolers braving the cold and busy streets to give joy to people, and hopefully get some modest remuneration in return. They can also be heard in churches, via the marvelous pipe organs or by simple choirs and instruments.
Christmas is also the chance to eat those sumptuous feasts of Christmas turkey, ham, roast beef, mashed potatoes, fruitcakes, eggnogs, apple or pumpkin pies, chestnuts roasting, and a heavenly selection of other foods. But of course, it is not just the food that’s important during the season but the spirit of sharing and togetherness that is paramount.
Many people say that Christmas is for only kids. While that may be true and could be attributed to many adults’ preoccupation in our hectic, fast-paced society, deep inside, we are all children. We all long for that enchanting moment when we try to get a glimpse of Santa Claus climbing down the chimney, putting gifts under the tree, or placing them in hung stockings.
We all still want to see the reindeer pull the magical sleigh full of wondrous gifts wrought by good ole Saint Nick himself while being assisted by his elves. Whatever meaning Christmas has to us, it truly is the most beautiful part of everyone’s lives in the US, and also throughout the world.
Recap
The holiday season is a time for family, friends, and joy. It is a time to reflect on the past year and look forward to the new year with hope and optimism. As we come to the end of the holiday season, let us take a moment to appreciate all the wonderful moments we have shared with our loved ones and to be thankful for all the blessings we have received. May the spirit of the holidays stay with us throughout the coming year and bring us peace, joy, and happiness.
Because this season means different things to many people, we included all possible themes and the best Christmas quotes that you can use for any purpose during this Yuletide.
