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Christmas Quotes

Most of the quotes on this page are not about Christmas at all. We built it from the pages on family, love and gratitude, which is what people tend to want for a card or a toast.

That makes it a long list, ordered by quality rather than by how seasonal each entry feels. If you want something that sounds like Christmas, search for it. If you want something that would be true at any family table, start here.

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We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

Paul Tillich The New Being (1955)

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans, and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

Humberto Maturana Humberto Maturana et al (1996)

The love game is never called off on account of darkness.

Thomas Lansing Masson

They had been in love, desperately in love, but the universe cared nothing for the vicissitudes of the human heart.

Alastair Reynolds Redemption Ark (2002)

That is the true measure of love, you see, the evil one will stoop to for its sake...

Michael Swanwick Jack Faust (1997)

Nauru considers its relationship with Taiwan as that of family and we stand with Taiwan.

Lionel Aingimea Lionel Aingimea (2019)

Gratitude is the vision of the Gives, not of the gift-it comes from God Himself.

Al-Qushayri The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002)

When you recognize the Beauty, you will also recognize the Beloved and fall in love with Him.

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

LOVE & FAITH ~my 2 favorite words that I carry strongly in my heart which I desperately needed to get thru this incredibly difficult year.

Coco Lee

“How easily you men forget, even when you tell yourselves you are ‘in love,’ whatever idiocy that phrase may convey to your superstitious and romantic little mind!”

Andrew J. Offutt Ardor on Aros (1973)

Open your eyes of love, and see Him who pervades this world! consider it well, and know that this is your own country.

Kabir Songs of Kabîr (1915)

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

Gottfried Leibniz The Elements of True Piety (1677)

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Nathaniel Hawthorne The American Notebooks (1835)

But love can mean many things. It can be an instrument of aggression or a function of disease.

Roger Zelazny Frost & Fire (1989)

The demons had invented love. There needs to be said no more.

Tanith Lee Night's Sorceries (1987)

The Sufi's love to God goes with God's love towards him. Sufis are folk who have preferred God to everything, so that God has preferred them to everything.

Dhul-Nun al-Misri The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Everyone wants love, but there are so few who can give it. Or else you offer it passionately, selflessly, and it's rejected, your love is not wanted, it's a burden.

Sophia Tolstaya

From the hand of the cup-bearer I drank the goblet of love. Oneness became overpowering, forget infidelity and Islam.

Khwaja Ghulam Farid The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

I fear to accept anything from anybody lest my heart should start cherishing love for that person. I desire only to live in His thoughts.

Sufyan al-Thawri The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Divine way is extremely difficult to tread, but you should not despair. If you have courage, true aspiration, and ardency of love, then come to this path, otherwise be silent.

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

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