For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. Luke 2:11 (KJV)
Since Christ’s birth some 2,000 years ago, much has been written about this God/man and those years when he walked in our shoes. Planet Earth never had such a visitor, and writers have never gotten over it: You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father’s face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift. > John R. Rice.
The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable. > Ralph W. Sockman.
Christmas is not just the birth of a baby; it is the heavenly Father saying goodbye to his Son. > Author Unknown.
Christmas is the great central fact in the world’s history. To him everything looks forward and backward. All the lines of history converge upon him. All the great purposes of God culminate in him. The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of his birth. > Charles H. Spurgeon.
You needn’t worry about not feeling brave. Our Lord didn’t – see the scene in Gethsemane. How thankful I am that when God became man he did not choose to become a man of iron nerves; that would not have help weaklings like you and me nearly so much. > C. S. Lewis.
God ministers to us so gently, so stolenly, as it were, with such a quiet, tender, love absence of display, that men often drink of his wine, as those wedding guests drank, without knowing whence it comes – without thinking that the giver is beside them, yea, in their very hearts. > George MacDonald.
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn’t be a great moral teacher. He’d either be a lunatic – on a level with a man who says he’s a poached egg – or else he’d be the Devil of Hell. You mist make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the son of God, or else a madman or something worse. > C. S. Lewis.
A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honours, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ. > John Dyer.
Christmas is a son away from home. > Norma Alloway.
See also Luke 1:26-38; 2:1-20.
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