Quotes for Christmas

What a truly wonderful morning this is! Not only is it on this day that we yearly celebrate that very time in which God sent his only Son to earth in the form of a tiny infant, but it is also the first day of the week in which we regularly celebrate the resurrection of that same child who thirty years later would be nailed to a cross! What can possibly be said of Christmas? Following this paragraph are some profound statements describing for us the true wonder of our celebration of Christ’s birth.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?—G.K. Chesterton

The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity–hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory–because at the Father’s will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.—J.I. Packer

Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother’s arms. King of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph. Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter’s despised son.—Charles Spurgeon

If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: “God with us.” We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ. The greater truth of the holiday is His deity. More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth!—John McArthur

The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.—Ralph W. Sockman

So God throws open the door of this world—and enters as a baby. As the most vulnerable imaginable. Because He wants unimaginable intimacy with you. What religion ever had a god that wanted such intimacy with us that He came with such vulnerability to us? What God ever came so tender we could touch Him? So fragile that we could break Him? So vulnerable that His bare, beating heart could be hurt? Only the One who loves you to death.—Ann Voskamp

The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that he might offer up his life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.—Billy Graham

Unquestionably, the Apostle John would pen it best:

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14).

It is my prayer that in all of the activity of Christmas, you will not miss God’s message to you!

Merry Christmas!

Jason