Christmas Sayings for Cards

The Christmas season is known to create a warm and positive atmosphere which provides a relief from tensions that a person has sustained throughout the year. It is the time to celebrate and spend quality time with your loved ones. Preparing cards for Christmas is an activity that doubles up the joy and fun associated with Christmas.

There has been a long tradition of sending cards to communicate messages and sayings about Christmas through them. However, it was in the year 1843 that the first Christmas card was sent by post. Here are few sayings used to offer the best wishes for this festival of happiness.

♦ At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year ~Thomas Tusser

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

♦ Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind. ~Helen Steiner Rice

♦ 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

♦ The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect! ~ Charles N. Barnard

♦ Love came down at Christmas; Love all lovely, love divine; Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign. ~Christina Rossetti

♦ O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God! ~Guy Wetmore Carryl

♦ 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

♦ It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One! ~Charles Dickens

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

♦ It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. ~W.T. Ellis

♦ 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. ~Marjorie Holmes

♦ I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up; they have no holidays. ~Henry Youngman

♦ A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. ~Garrison Keillor

♦ Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts. ~Max Lucado

♦ 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

♦ I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. ~Dick Gregory

♦ 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

♦ Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live. ~Dennis Miller

♦ The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. ~Johnny Carson

Words have great power and which can be used to communicate our feelings to the loved ones. The sayings and quotes presented here should help in making wonderful Christmas cards.