With the Christmas season blossoming and the Christmas cards all our in the shops we thought some Christmas quotes could be useful for inspiring you to get the Christmas cards and emails written and winging their way to loved ones.

Christmas Card Messages

These Christmas card quotes are ones we've come up with for you:

We wish you and yours peace, love and joy this Christmas season.

May you be blessed with love, hope and peace this Christmas season and the year ahead.

For my treasured friend I wish for you all the love, kindness and support you've given me this year to be yours many times over this Christmas and new year.

I'm sure I don't say it enough but I want you to know, so I'll say it in this Christmas card, I love having you in my life. May your Christmas be joyous and filled with love. I wish for you a new year full of prosperity, great friendship and love and all good things.

Thank you for the love and friendship you've so generously given me, I really treasure these beautiful gifts. I wish for you a Christmas full of love, peace and joy and may the new year bring you your hearts content.

Christmas Quotes to Inspire

Here are Christmas quotes by famous people to inspire!

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

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

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year… These make a Merry Christmas! - John Greenleaf Whittier

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. - Janice Maeditere

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

Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the sign. - Christina G. Rossetti

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. - Calvin Coolidge

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. - Charles Schulz

Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day - Helen Steiner Rice

Christmas Day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. - Phillips Brooks

Health, Peace, and sweet content be yours. - Shakespeare

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. - Agnes M. Pharo

And the angel said unto them, "Fear not! For, behold, I bring you tidings of great joy, Which shall be to all people. "For unto you is born this day in the city of David A Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, Lying in a manger. - St. Luke 2:10-12

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. - Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas… that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance -- a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved. - Augusta Rundel

God would be pleased if you were to take one last look in the mirror before you start your day and say, 'God loves you . . . and so do I'. - Zig Ziglar

Let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Christ, the Lord is ris'n to Day,”
Sons of Men and Angels say,
Raise your Joys and Triumphs high,
Sing ye Heav'ns, and Earth reply. -Charles Wesley

Christmas Cards Making a Difference

We love the Christmas cards that are all about positive change - the cards that fundraise community groups that create positive change! There are Christmas cards that fundraise for medical research like breast cancer research, for children like Unicef, for peace like Amnesty International, for social welfare groups such as the Smith Family and the Salvation Army. So when you're buying your Christmas cards this year make sure your money is going to make real positive change and you're spreading the word on what really matters to you.

Here's a list of Christmas cards sites that are all about giving:

Amnesty International Christmas Cards

National Breast Cancer Foundation Christmas Cards by Hallmark - available nation wide in news agencies and shops!

Need Corporate Christmas Cards that fundraise for breast cancer research? Here they are!

Smith Family Christmas Cards brings Smiles!

Unicef Christmas Cards online

You choose - Charity Christmas cards online

Want to make your own cards and still contribute? Donate the amount of money that suits you to a favourite charity and make a note of it on the back of your cards to help spread the word.