45 Short Religious Christmas Quotes To Spread God’s Love
Last Updated on November 13, 2022
Summary: Looking for some short religious Christmas quotes to send to your friends and celebrate a blessed Merry Christmas this year? Then this quote compilation is just what you’re looking for.
In the midst of Christmas preparations, it’s easy to lose focus on what’s truly important. It is so easy for us to forget that the real reason we are supposed to be celebrating during this time of year is the birth of Jesus Christ.
When you are putting up your Christmas decorations, baking Christmas cookies, and writing Christmas cards, it is a good idea to have religious Christmas quotations in the back of your mind so that you get blessed during your preparations and busyness.
To help you get past the holiday craziness and remember the true meaning of Christmas, we’ve gathered together some inspirational Christian quotes.
Short Christmas Spiritual Sayings
1. “For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.” – Charles Dickens
2. “Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.” – CS Lewis
3. “All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.”
– David Jeremiah
4. “Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.” – Pope Francis
5. “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
6. “She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” – Matthew 1:21.
7. “And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne.” – Revelations 12:5
8. “Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.” —Luke 2:11
9. “The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.” – Ralph Washington Sockman
10. “The very purpose of Christ’s coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.” —Billy Graham
11. “Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.” – Helen Steiner Rice
12. “The giving of gifts is not something man invented. God started the giving spree when He gave a gift beyond words, the unspeakable gift of His Son.” – Unknown
13. “And this will be a sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.”
– Luke 2:12
14. “For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.” – Charles Dickens
15. “Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.” – Phillips Brooks
16. “Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that’s set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God’s gift of the Christ child.” – Amy Grant
17. “Mankind is a great, an immense family…this is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.” – Pope John Paul XXIII
18. “Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal men may live in eternity.”
– Jan Hus
19. “There has been only one Christmas — the rest are anniversaries.” – W.J. Cameron
20. “For, first, the birth of Christ was the incarnation of God: it was God taking upon himself human—a mystery, a wondrous mystery, to be believed in rather than to be defined.” – Charles Spurgeon
21. “For Christians, Christmas is a celebration of Jesus’ birth — that light has come into darkness and, as the Gospel of John says, ‘the darkness could not overcome it.’” – Tish Harrison Warren
22. “[Christmas] means not just hope for the world, despite all its unending problems, but hope for you and me, despite all our unending failings.” – Timothy Keller
23. “How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!” – Benjamin Franklin
24. “You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father’s face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.” – John R. Rice
25. “And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.” – John 5:11
26.”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.” – Josemaría Escrivá
27. “Peace with God, peace with others, and peace in your own heart.” -Rick Warren
28. “I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.” -Norman Vincent Peale
29. “Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.” – George Whitefield
30. “Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited.” – Thomas Merton
31. “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.”
-Isaiah 7:14
32. “When Christ entered our world, he didn’t come to brighten our Decembers but to transform our lives.” – Rich Miller
33. “Mankind is a great, an immense family… This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.” – Pope John Paul XXIII
34. “May God fill your life with love, joy, and peace this Christmas and throughout the New Year.” – Unknown
35. “O star of wonder, star of night,
Guide us to thy perfect light.” – John Henry Hopkins Jr.
36. “May the beautiful lights of every holiday season remind us of Him who is the source of all light.”
– David A. Bednar
37. “For it is in giving that we receive. ” – St. Francis of Assisi
38. “Advent helps us remember that light shines in the darkness and we reflect it.” – Greg Richardson
39. “In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” – John 1:4-5
40. “In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear!” – Luke 1:42
41. “Our God is the God of the unexpected. A few things could be more unexpected than the King of heaven being born in a stable.” – Bill Crowder
42. “May the kings of Sheba and Seba present him gifts; May all kings bow down to him and all nations serve him.” – Psalm 72:10–11
43. “Peace with God, peace with others, and peace in your own heart.” – Rick Warren
44. “He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth.” – Luke 1:14
45. “Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable Gift.”- 2 Corinthians 9:15
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