Christmas is more than just a celebration and it wraps the whole world in the warmth of unconditional love. People have a sentimental attachment to Christmas that some even ended up writing some marvelous quotes on Christmas. Quotes got their prominence with the arrival of Christmas cards. As the legend says, the tradition of sending Christmas cards was started about 150 years back in England. In 1843 when the founder of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, realized that he had to send too many cards out and writing all the cards by hand was more than impossible. But he wanted to reach out to all his friends asking for helping the poor and the needy. He came with the idea of painting a card by John Calcott Horseley. But though it never was sent, it was the beginning of a novel tradition which is still been followed all over the world. Though it is the era of e- cards, the hand written cards are considered more personal and original. Take a little time to hand-write a Christmas card, mentioning some beautiful quotes and send it to your near and dear ones. To make your cards more special you have a list of quotes that you can write on your cards.
Christmas Card Sayings
Make your Christmas cards more special by adding a few hand written Christmas quotes making it more special and unique. Read on to know Christmas cards quotes.
Christmas Card Quotes
- Health, Peace, and sweet content be yours. - Shakespeare
- Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. Norman Vincent Peale
- Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever. Bess Streeter Aldrich Winston Churchill
- We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
- A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small. Eva K. Logue
- Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God. - George F. McDougall
- 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 Mathew Adams
- Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again. Grace Noll Crowell
- Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl.
- But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever. Bess Streeter Aldrich
- And the angel said unto them, "Fear not!
- For, behold, I bring you tidings of great joy,
- Which shall be to all people.
- "For unto you is born this day in the city of David
- A Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you:
- Ye shall find the babewrapped in swaddling clothes,
- Lying in a manger. St. Luke 2:10-1
- Heap on the wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. - Sir Walter Scott
- 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
- The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas." W. C. Jones
- Christmas Day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. Phillips Brooks
- "Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone." Deborah Whipp.
- "I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men." H. W. Longfellow