Beautiful Christmas Card Verses

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Are you looking for some nice and touching Christmas card verses to pen in your Christmas greetings? Check out this collection of quotes and sayings.

“May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope;
The spirit of Christmas which is peace;
The heart of Christmas which is love.”
– Ada V. Hendricks

“The time draws near the birth of Christ;
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson

” Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth,
And there He lives and dies.”
– Alfred Noyes

“Christmas time’s for dreaming
Thoughts of long ago…
Holidays of childhood,
Memories all aglow.”
– Alice Kennelly Roberts

“To greet with joy the glorious morn,
Which angels welcomed long ago,
When our redeeming Lord was born,
To bring the light of Heaven below;
The Powers of Darkness to dispel,
And rescue Earth from Death and Hell.”
– Anne Bronte

“The Son of God, the eternal King,
That did us all salvation bring,
And freed the soul from danger;
He whom the whole world could not take,
The Word, which heaven and earth did make,
Was now laid in a manger.”
– Ben Jonson

“This time of year means being kind
to everyone we meet,
To share a smile with strangers
we may pass along the street.”
– Betty Black

“I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
I notice this, each year I live;
I always like the gifts I get,
But how I love the gifts I give!”
– Carolyn Wells

“Tis blessed to bestow, and yet,
Could we bestow the gifts we get,
And keep the ones we give away,
How happy were our Christmas day!”
– Carolyn Wells

“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!”
– Charles Dickens

“Hark the herald angels sing
“Glory to the newborn King!
Peace on earth and mercy mild
God and sinners reconciled”
Joyful, all ye nations rise
Join the triumph of the skies
With the angelic host proclaim:
“Christ is born in Bethlehem”
Hark! The herald angels sing
“Glory to the newborn King!”"
– Charles Wesley

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

“Christmas hath a darkness;
Brighter than the blazing noon;
Christmas hath a chillness
Warmer than the heat of June,
Christmas hath a beauty
Lovelier than the world can show:
For Christmas bringeth Jesus,
Brought for us so low.”
– Christina Rossetti

“T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
– Clement Clark Moore

“It is the Christmas time:
And up and down ‘twixt heaven and earth,
In glorious grief and solemn mirth,
The shining angels climb.”
– Dinah Maria Mulock

“Christmas doesn’t come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more.”
– Dr. Seuss

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!”
– Dr. Seuss

“At Christmas
A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;
He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season’s here;
Then he’s thinking more of others than he’s thought the months before,
And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for.
He is less a selfish creature than at any other time;
When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime.”
– Edgar Guest

“There’ll always be Christmas as long as a light
Glows in the window to guide folks at night,
As long as a star in the heavens above,
Keeps shining down… there’ll be Christmas and love.”
– Edna Jacques

“When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“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

“As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.”
– Eric Sevareid

“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

“Oh! lovely voices of the sky
Which hymned the Saviour’s birth,
Are ye not singing still on high,
Ye that sang, ‘Peace on earth’?”
– Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans

“The Christ-child stood at Mary’s knee,
His hair was like a crown.
And all the flowers looked up at Him,
And all the stars looked down.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“You will find the road to Christmas
Where your hopes and dreams come true,
And your heart will know the magic
That the season brings to you.”
– Garnett Ann Schultz

“Without the door let sorrow lie,
And if for cold it hap to die,
We’ll bury ‘t in a Christmas pie,
And evermore be merry.”
– George Wither

“So now is come our joyful feast,
Let every man be jolly;
Each room with ivy leaves is dressed,
And every post with holly.
Though some churls at our mirth repine,
Round your foreheads garlands twine,
Drown sorrow in a cup of wine,
And let us all be merry.”
– George Wither

“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

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

“Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.”
– Helen Steiner Rice

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

“Awake, glad heart! Get up and sing,
It is the birthday of thy King,
Awake! Awake!
The sun doth shake
Light from his locks, and all the way
Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.”
– Henry Vaughan

“I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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