Christmas Quotations

The ardency to celebrate Christmas is so much so that air smells the aroma of flowers, eyes see celebrations all around and ears listen to the giggling sounds. Such a fervor is undying and will bring heaven on earth if the same continues for the rest of the year. There is cheerfulness and harmony, which penetrates deep into our souls so that we are refreshed and inspirited with all goodness. Xmas quotations rightly express the same celebratory buzz.

You can spread the happiness via these famous Xmas quotations. Make big postures with Christmas symbols and pictures on it highlighted with different colors and add Xmas quotes in it. You can hang these posters onto the walls of your home or at workplace. You can also add these quotes to small card fixed onto the gifts. Write them in your Xmas greeting cards. You can even get Christmas saying greeting cards.

Here are some of the famous quotations either taken from most loved novels, books or uttered by legendary authors. They depict a motley of moods related to Christmas. If one of them portrays a perfect picture of celebrations, another one praises the special traits of the season.

Some Of The Most Popular Christmas Quotations

"Never worry about the size of your Xmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall." - Larry Wilde

"Somehow, not only for Christmas, But all the long year through, The joy that you give to others, Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing, The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing, Returns to you glad." -John Green leaf Whittier

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. - Hamilton Wright

I will honor it in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. - Charles Dickens, Ebeneezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol. It waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. -Norman Vincent Peale

Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.
- Christina Rossetti

Christmas Sayings

You will get abundant literature on the celebrations of Christmas. One gets involved in the world of words so much that the festivities of xmas seem more magical. Not everyone is very much interested in reading books. But if you wish to share that excitement with your loved ones, you can do that by giving them cards containing these sayings. These short and mind arresting Xmas sayings make an immediate impact on our minds.

Xmas is the time to create memories that can be cherished life long. Here we are with some of the memorable sayings for you to share it further and spread the cheery and jolly vibes all around. These handpicked Xmas sayings include statements by some of the great authors who are legends in the literary world. Their writings have created and overturned many traditions. See the magic when their expertise in using words comes at work to describe the celebrations. It is only after reading them, we get to know that the spirit of Xmas transcends mundane world and becomes ethereal.

Christmas Sayings

You might as well do your Christmas hinting early." - Anon.

At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's newfangled mirth;
But life of each thing that in season grows.

- William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost

I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Xmas should fall in the Middle of winter.

- Joseph Addison

Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence. - Joan Mills

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.

Like snowflakes, my Xmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone. - Deborah Whip

For a vast collection of sayings on different aspects of the festival see christmas-quotations.com

Xmas

"Xmas" and "X-mas" are common abbreviations of the word "Christmas". They are sometimes pronounced "eksmas", but they, and variants such as "Xtemass", originated as handwriting abbreviations for the pronunciation "Christmas". The "-mas" part came from the Anglo-Saxon for "festival", "religious event": Crīstesmæsse or Crīstemæsse. This abbreviation is widely used but not universally accepted; some view it as demeaning to Christ, whilst others find it a helpful abbreviation.

The word "Christ" and its compounds, including "Christmas", have been abbreviated for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern "Xmas" was commonly used. "Christ" was often written as "XP" or "Xt"; there are references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as far back as 1021 AD. This X and P arose as the uppercase forms of the Greek letters χ and ρ), used in ancient abbreviations for Χριστος (Greek for "Christ"), and are still widely seen in many Eastern Orthodox icons depicting Jesus Christ. The labarum, an amalgamation of the two Greek letters rendered as ☧, is a symbol often used to represent Christ in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian Churches. ^[1]

Some believe that the term is part of an effort to "take Christ out of Christmas" or to literally "cross out Christ"; ^[2] it is also seen as evidence of the secularization of Christmas, as a symptom of the commercialization of the holiday (as the abbreviation has long been used by retailers). It may also be used as a vehicle to be more inclusive (See political correctness).

The occasionally held belief that the "X" represents the cross Christ was crucified on has no basis in fact. St Andrew's Cross is X-shaped, but Christ's cross was probably shaped like a T or a †. Indeed, X-as-chi was associated with Christ long before X-as-cross could be, since the cross as a Christian symbol developed later. (The Greek letter Chi Χ stood for "Christ" in the ancient Greek acrostic ΙΧΘΥΣ ichthys.) While some see the spelling of Christmas as Xmas a threat, others see it as a way to honor the martyrs. The use of X as an abbreviation for "cross" in modern abbreviated writing ( e.g. "Kings X" for "Kings Cross") may have reinforced this assumption.

In ancient Christian art χ and χρ are abbreviations for Christ's name.^[3] In many manuscripts of the New Testament and icons, X is an abbreviation for Christos, as is XC (the first and last letters in Greek, using the lunate sigma); compare IC for Jesus in Greek. The Oxford English Dictionary documents the use of this abbreviation back to 1551, 50 years before the first English colonists arrived in North America and 60 years before the King James Version of the Bible was completed. At the same time, Xian and Xianity were in frequent use as abbreviations of "Christian" and "Christianity"; and nowadays still are sometimes so used, but much less than "Xmas". The proper names containing the name "Christ" other than aforementioned are rarely abbreviated in this way (e.g. Hayden Xensen for the actor name "Hayden Christensen"). Pop artist Christina Aguilera is known to spell her first name as 'Xtina'.