100+ Merry Christmas Wishes, Messages & Quotes

Wholesome Christmas Wishes: 'May your hot chocolate be steaming and your cookies be sweet. May a wave and a smile come from all that you greet. May your fingers and toes and your frozen feet stay warm before Christmas Day!' Background features a cozy Christmas setup with a small white tree, candy cane, and festive ornaments. (Cover for Blog Post: '100 Merry Christmas Wishes, Messages & Quotes')
Wholesome Christmas Wishes: 'May your hot chocolate be steaming and your cookies be sweet. May a wave and a smile come from all that you greet. May your fingers and toes and your frozen feet stay warm before Christmas Day!' Background features a cozy Christmas setup with a small white tree, candy cane, and festive ornaments. (Cover for Blog Post: '100 Merry Christmas Wishes, Messages & Quotes')

Spread your Christmas cheer far and wide with Christmas greeting cards. Not sure what to say? We can help! Here’s a curated list of 60 Christmas wishes and quotes to help you express your Christmas wishes for friends, relatives, neighbors, clients – all your people.

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Christmas Card Messages for Family, Friends, and Everyone

Here are 60 Christmas card messages for everyone on your address list. Find the perfect sentiment—from classic to funny to religious—to share your wishes for the holiday season. Whether you’re sending to friends, family, co-workers, or neighbors, we’ve got Christmas card messages for all.

Classic Christmas Wishes

Here are some simple ways to say Merry Christmas to anyone on your list.

  • We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!
  • May your celebrations be marvelously merry and bright.
  • Happy holidays from our family to yours.
  • Jingle all the way! Merry, merry Christmas day!
  • Merry Christmas! May your days be merry and bright.
  • Mistletoe and holly, a season bright and jolly!
  • Joyful greetings from the [Last Name] family!
  • Happiness and Cheer! Christmas time is here!
  • Wishing you and those around you a very Merry Christmas.
  • Wishing you a blessed and joyful Christmas.
  • Wishing you all that’s merry and bright!
  • Make memories galore! Happy holidays.
  • Joy to the world, and to you. Merry Christmas.
  • Have a very, very happy & merry!
  • Warmest holiday wishes to you and your family.

Christmas Greetings for Friends & Family

A list of warm Christmas messages you can send to your friends, family, and those close to you.

  • From our family to yours, have a wonderful season of celebrations! 
  • Peace and love to you at this holiday season and in all the seasons of the year to come.
  • Peace… Joy… Love… Wishing you these and the Happiest of Holidays!
  • Sending all our love and best wishes for the coming New Year.
  • Wishing you Christmas blessings wrapped in love and tied up with joy!
  • Wishing you happy holidays filled with peace, love, and joy!
  • Merry Christmas from our family to yours! May Peace and Joy fill the coming year.
  • May your merry celebrations be filled with love and laughter
  • All is calm. All is bright. Wishing you every Christmas delight!
  • With warmest wishes for a wonderful holiday season filled with joy.
  • Happy holidays and best wishes from all of us!

Funny Christmas Messages

Add a little humor to your Christmas cards with these funny Christmas card messages.

  • Br-r-r-ringing you season’s greetings!
  • I told Santa you were good this year, but he just laughed.
  • I hope your Christmas is as lit as your tree.
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas! And we love you so much, we’re not singing it! 
  • Christmas is the only time of year when it’s perfectly acceptable to eat candy for breakfast. Enjoy!
  • Tis the season to be jolly, so raise a glass and sing tra-la-lolly!
  • It’s all fun and games until Santa checks the naughty list.
  • It’s beGINning to look a lot like Christmas — Cheers!
  • We woof you a merry Christmas and a yappy New Year! 
  • Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle – get the holiday jingle back in your jangle!
  • May your holiday season be filled with joy, laughter, and no fruitcake.

Heartfelt Christmas Wishes

Show your loved ones you care with any of these heartfelt and sentimental Christmas card messages.

  • May the joy of the season linger in your heart all the new year.
  • Wishing you happy holidays and a new year that makes you smile every day.
  • Wishing you a Christmas blessing and a new year full of hope.
  • Peace and goodwill, love, and great joy are our wishes for you in the upcoming year.
  • May this Christmas be filled with happiness in all that you do, and may this joy continue the whole year through.
  • Wishing you all the joy a holiday can hold.
  • May the holidays bring you happy moments that become forever memories.
  • The bounty of beauty that Christmas brings wakes us to beauty in the smallest things.
  • Christmas wishes for joy, hope, and lasting peace for you.
  • Wishing you the gift of moments to treasure.
  • May the spirit of Christmas fill your heart with gratitude, kindness, and hope.

Religious Christmas Card 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.

  • Joy to the world, the Lord has come. Christmas blessings to you and those close to you.
  • May the joy of Christ’s birth fill your heart and home this Christmas and throughout the coming year.
  • May the true meaning of Christmas bring you peace and happiness. 
  • May you feel God’s love surrounding you this holy season.
  • Wishing you a Christmas filled with the love of Christ and the blessings of His grace.
  • As we celebrate the birth of our Savior, may you find comfort and joy in His everlasting love.
  • Glory to God in the highest, and peace to His people on Earth.
  • May His blessings be with you today and always.
  • This Christmas, may the light of Jesus shine brightly in your life, filling your home with love, joy, and peace.
  • Wishing you and your family a Christmas filled with faith, hope, and the joy of our Lord.
  • May His peace and love be with you today and always. Wishing you a blessed Christmas.
  • Wishing you a holy and joyous Christmas!

Quotes for Christmas Cards

Sometimes someone else just says it best. Here are 50 Christmas quotes you can use to personalize your Christmas cards this holiday.

Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold.
Josephine Daskam Bacon
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
Peg Bracken
The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is young.
Phillips Brooks
Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing, but of reflection.
Winston Churchill
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’.
Bing Crosby
Christmas Wishes, A quote by Charles Dickens, "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." The quote is written on top of a shaded image with Christmas gifts
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
Phyllis Diller
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.
“Elf” – Will Ferrell
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
W.T. Ellis
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
B.C. Forbes
Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin – inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.
John Geddes
Christmas Wishes, A mug of Christmas tea with a candy cane. The quote "At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional." by Robert Godden is written on top of the shaded image
At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional.
Robert Godden
Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.”
Richelle E. Goodrich
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 Wishes, A quote by Bob Hope, "My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others." The quote is written in white text on top of an image with a heart ornament.
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.
Bob Hope
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison Keillor
The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree – those to me, are the scents of the holidays.
Blake Lively
For they traveled by night and they slept by day, for their guide was a beautiful wonderful star.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.’
Luke 2:13-14
Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.
Robert Lynd
Christmas Wishes, A quote by Hamilton Wright Mabie, "Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." The quote is written in white text on top of a blue shaded photo of pine tree branches covered in snow
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.
Janice Maeditere
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
This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven’s eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
John Milton
It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you… yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.
Mother Teresa
Christmas Wishes, A quote by Carol Nelson, "Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home." The quote is written in white text on top of an image of a table where someone is making Christmas cookies.
Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.
Carol Nelson
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.
Agnes M. Pahro
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas Wishes, A quote by James Cash Penney, "The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving." The quote is written in white text on a red background.
The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.
James Cash Penney
Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
Pindar
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
Edward Pola and George Wyle
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
Queen Elizabeth II
Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.
Helen Steiner Rice
Christmas Wishes, Candy canes in the shape of hearts on the background. The candy canes are red and white. The quote "Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas." is written in white text on top of the image.
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.
Dale Evans Rogers
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.
Andy Rooney
One of the things that Christmas reminds us is that Jesus Christ was once a child.
Hark Herald Sarmiento
Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.
Ann Garnett Schultz
Heap on the wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
Sir Walter Scott
Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more.
Dr. Seuss
Christmas Wishes, Quote by Dr. Alexander Smith. The quote reads "Christmas is the day that holds all time together." The quote is written in white text, in the background there ar e pine cones photographed from a top angle
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
Dr. Alexander Smith
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith
For it is in giving that we receive.
St. Francis of Assisi
Christmas isn’t just a day—it’s a frame of mind.
Miracle on 34th Street
Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
Margaret Thatcher
Christmas Wishes, A quote by Rosie Thomas. The quote reads "Christmas is the day that holds all time together." The quote is written in white text.
Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.
Rosie Thomas
Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.
Unknown
Christmas: the only time of year you can sit in front of a dead tree eating candy out of socks.
Unknown
Peace with God, peace with others, and peace in your own heart.
Rick Warren
We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas time.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Tips for What to Write in Christmas Cards

Here are a few tips to elevate your Christmas messages and greetings:

  • Personalize your messages using names and simple phrases that mean something to your recipient.
  • If you’re not sure what to say, keep your Christmas card messages short and sweet. A simple wish for a happy season is perfect.
  • Christmas is a time to reconnect, and your greeting is a great holiday ambassador. A Christmas message can be a simple gesture that gets you back in touch.
  • As with every greeting card, your Christmas greeting is all about the person on the receiving end. Who would love a text or email? Hard copies clutter their space. Who treasures the traditional and the printed pages they can hold in their hands? Christmas cards are their holiday décor! Your noticing is a gift of thoughtfulness.
  • Send your Merry Christmas wishes early in December so people can enjoy them all month long. The first Christmas greeting signals that the holiday season has begun! 

More Christmas Cheer from Greetings Island

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