100+ Merry Christmas Wishes, Messages & Quotes

Holidays are busy — the right line in a card should be quick to choose and easy to feel. Below, you’ll find over 100 original, ready-to-use Christmas wishes and short quotes, grouped by tone, so you can select something that suits the person and the card. Use them in group ecards, family photo cards, office cards, or a quick text to a neighbor.

Classic Christmas Wishes

For your friends and family celebrating blessings this holiday, here are a few message ideas for Christmas cards you can use to spread His love.

• Wishing you a merry Christmas and a joyful New Year.
• May your holidays be cozy, bright, and full of laughter.
• Warmest wishes this Christmas — may your home be full of cheer.
• Merry Christmas! Hope the season brings peace and good company.
• Sending holiday hugs and the very best wishes for the year ahead.
• May your holidays be wrapped in love and topped with joy.
• Wishing you cozy nights and bright mornings this Christmas.
• Merry Christmas — may kindness find you every day next year.
• Hope your festivities are merry and your memories last a lifetime.
• Best wishes for a peaceful holiday and a happy New Year.
• May the warmth of the season fill your heart and home.
• Thinking of you with gratitude this Christmas.
• Wishing you sweet moments and quiet joy this holiday season.
• Merry Christmas — enjoy every sparkle and every smile.
• May your days be merry and your nights be bright.
• Sending love and best wishes for a beautiful holiday season.
• Wishing you holiday laughter, good food, and great company.
• Hope your Christmas is filled with little wonders and big love.
• Cheers to a season of peace, love, and bright beginnings.
• Merry Christmas — from our home to yours with warmest thoughts.

Christmas Messages for Friends & Family

• From our family to yours — merry moments and happy memories.
• So grateful for you this year. Merry Christmas, dear friend.
• Celebrating the season with a grateful heart — love you all.
• May your home overflow with love and holiday treats.
• Wishing you a Christmas as warm as the smiles you bring.
• To family near and far: Merry Christmas and see you soon.
• Thanks for being part of our story — merry holidays!
• Let’s make new memories this season — happy holidays.
• Grateful for your friendship — enjoy every festive minute.
• Hope your holidays are as wonderful as you are.
• Merry Christmas — can’t wait to celebrate together.
• Sending love, laughter, and second helpings of dessert.
• Here’s to cozy nights, bright lights, and family hugs.
• Wishing you a season full of small joys and big laughs.
• May your Christmas be simple, sweet, and unforgettable.
• Family, food, and festive cheer — hope you have all three.
• To my people: may your hearts be full and your schedules light.
• Merry Christmas — thanks for making life sparkle.
• Wishing you warmth, wonder, and time with those you love.
• From our clan to yours — peace, joy, and many cookies.

Funny Christmas Messages

For your friends and family celebrating blessings this holiday, here are a few message ideas for Funny Christmas cards you can use to spread His love.

• Merry Christmas — calories don’t count this month, right?
• Hope your tree is lit and your phone battery lasts through the carols.
• Eat, drink, and be merry — then nap. Repeat.
• Santa called — he said you’re on the “most delightful” list.
• May your relatives be merry and your Wi-Fi strong.
• Hope your holidays are more jingle, less jangle.
• Merry Christmas — keep calm and carol on.
• May your fruitcake be questionable and your holiday spirits excellent.
• Warning: I may sing loudly and off-key. Proceed with holiday joy.
• Hope your presents are great and your returns are easy.
• Wishing you fewer awkward small talk moments this season.
• Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle — have fun instead!
• Merry Christmas — may your socks be warm and your ugly sweater win.
• Santa’s workshop called — they ran out of patience (and batteries).
• Eat dessert first — it’s the season of reasonable choices.

Heartfelt & Sentimental Wishes

• May this Christmas bring quiet moments you’ll cherish forever.
• Wishing you a season of healing, hope, and small miracles.
• You’re in my heart this Christmas and every day after.
• May old traditions and new joys bring you comfort this year.
• Sending the kind of love that makes ordinary days glow.
• Hope your holidays are filled with moments that restore you.
• Wishing you strength today, joy tomorrow, and peace always.
• May the magic of Christmas renew your spirit and your smile.
• Thinking of you with love and wishing you a gentle holiday.
• May this season remind you how deeply you’re loved.
• Wishing you time to breathe, to laugh, and to be present.
• May the love you give return to you multiplied this Christmas.
• Hoping your holiday season is soft, warm, and richly blessed.
• Sending a quiet wish for peace to sit softly with you.
• Merry Christmas — may your heart find rest and wonder.
• May you feel hugged by love and wrapped in good memories.
• Wishing you connection, comfort, and small daily joys this season.
• May the lights of Christmas brighten every corner of your life.
• Sending a basket of warm wishes and a blanket of gratitude.
• Hoping this Christmas brings more reasons to smile than to worry.

Religious & Faith-Based Messages 

For your friends and family celebrating blessings this holiday, here are a few message ideas for religious Christmas cards you can use to spread His love.

• Rejoice — may the miracle of Christ’s birth fill your heart with peace.
• Wishing you God’s blessings this holy season and always.
• May His love light your way this Christmas and the coming year.
• Celebrating the gift of hope — Merry Christmas and God bless.
• Praying that Christ’s peace surrounds you and your family.
• May the joy of the nativity shine brightly in your life.
• Wishing you a blessed Christmas filled with faith and love.
• Glory to God — peace on earth and goodwill to all.
• May God’s grace be with you in every moment this season.
• Rejoice in the miracle — Merry Christmas and blessings.

Short Quotes & Lines for Cards

• “Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas.” — short line for a card
• “Peace on earth, goodwill to all.”
• “May your days be merry and bright.”
• “Gifts of time and love are truly the best.”
• “Christmas: the season for togetherness.”
• “Let kindness be your holiday tradition.”
• “The best gifts aren’t wrapped.”
• “Home is the heart of the holidays.”
• “Joy shared doubles joy.”
• “A little sparkle goes a long way.”
• “Celebrate the small moments.”
• “Warm hearts, full plates, bright lights.”
• “May wonder find you this season.”
• “Cherish the cookies, cherish the company.”
• “Hold close what matters most.”
• “This season, choose generosity.”
• “Let laughter lead the way.”
• “May hope follow you into the new year.”
• “Be the reason someone smiles today.”
• “Christmas: small miracles every day.”

Note: these are short, card-friendly lines you can use as openers, sign-offs, or inside the card.

Quotes for Christmas Cards

When words fall short, a well-chosen quote captures the holiday spirit perfectly.
Use these timeless and heartwarming Christmas quotes in your group cards, personalized greetings, or festive messages to friends and coworkers.

Classic Christmas Quotes

• “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
• “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
  — Burton Hills
• “At Christmas, all roads lead home.”
  — Marjorie Holmes
• “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”
  — Winston Churchill
• “Peace on earth will come to stay when we live Christmas every day.”
  — Helen Steiner Rice
• “Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.”
  — Calvin Coolidge
• “Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it white.”
  — Bing Crosby
• “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
  — Hamilton Wright Mabie
• “Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”
  — Alexander Smith

Heartfelt & Reflective Christmas Quotes

• “What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.”
  — Agnes M. Pahro
• “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”
  — Roy L. Smith
• “Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.”
  — Edna Ferber
• “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
• “The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.”
  — W.C. Jones
• “Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
  — Peg Bracken
• “Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”
  — Dale Evans Rogers
• “For it is in giving that we receive.”
  — St. Francis of Assisi
• “Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.”
  — Unknown
• “The smells of pine, cinnamon, and cookies are the music of Christmas.”
  — LovingEcards Original

Lighthearted Christmas Quotes

• “Christmas is the only time of year you can sit in front of a dead tree eating candy out of socks.”
  — Anonymous
• “At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional.”
  — Robert Godden
• “One of the most glorious messes in the world is the living room on Christmas morning. Don’t clean it up too quickly.”
  — Andy Rooney
• “Santa has the right idea — visit people once a year.”
  — Victor Borge
• “The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.”
  — James Cash Penney
• “Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth, sweetening every taste bud.”
  — Richelle E. Goodrich
• “Keep your friends close and your Christmas cookies closer.”
  — LovingEcards Original
• “Christmas calories don’t count — it’s been scientifically unverified.”
  — LovingEcards Original
• “May your Christmas lights untangle themselves this year.”
  — Unknown
• “It’s all fun and games until Santa checks the naughty list.”
  — Anonymous

Faith & Spiritual Christmas Quotes

• “Joy to the world, the Lord is come.”
  — Traditional Carol, 1719
• “And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men.”
  — Luke 2:13–14
• “When we remember a special Christmas, it’s not the gifts that made it special, but the spirit of love.”
  — Harlan Miller
• “The giving of gifts is not something man invented. God started the giving spree when He gave a gift beyond words — His Son.”
  — Robert Flatt
• “The Son of God became man to enable men to become sons of God.”
  — C.S. Lewis
• “May the light of Christ guide you this Christmas and always.”
  — LovingEcards Original
• “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.”
  — Isaiah 9:6
• “Faith makes the holiday bright; love makes it everlasting.”
  — LovingEcards Original
• “Christmas reminds us that light always enters where there is room for hope.”
  — LovingEcards Original

Short Quotes for Card Covers or Sign-Offs

• “Merry everything and a happy always.” — LovingEcards Original
• “Sparkle a little extra this Christmas.” — LovingEcards Original
• “Be present — that’s the best present.” — LovingEcards Original
• “Joy shared is joy multiplied.” — Unknown
• “May your cocoa be hot and your heart light.” — LovingEcards Original
• “All hearts come home for Christmas.” — Marjorie Holmes
• “Christmas is love wrapped in lights.” — LovingEcards Original
• “Let your heart be light.” — Traditional Lyric
• “Hope, joy, and peace — that’s the real holiday trio.” — LovingEcards Original
• “Keep Christmas in your heart and kindness in your hands.” — LovingEcards Original

💡 Pro Tip:

Quotes are best placed in the opening or closing of your card message.
Try combining a quote with a short personal line — for example:
“‘Christmas waves a magic wand…’ — and I hope it finds you smiling this year!”

Tips: What to Write in a Christmas Card

• Personalize a line. Add a short memory or a detail: “Love your holiday pies — can’t wait to try this year’s!”
• Match the tone. Use funny lines for close friends; stick with classic or religious lines for colleagues or older relatives.
• Keep it short when unsure. A simple “Thinking of you this Christmas” is always welcome.
• Sign with intention. After your wish, add a closing: “With love,” “Warmly,” or “All my best.”
• Group card tip. If many people sign, have one person add a short personalised sentence so the message still feels special.
• Send early. Aim for early December so your card can be enjoyed all month.

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