5 Christmas Quotes

It's the week before Christmas, so I'm going to do a countdown beginning today from 7 to 1, with 1 being on Christmas Day. Each day will have a different topic.

Today I'm sharing with you 5 Christmas quotes to reflect upon.

Quote #1

This is from Charles Porterfield Krauth's magnum opus, The Conservative Reformation and its Theology.  It is a quote pertaining to Martin Luther.

All days were Christmas to the great Restorer. He had found the Christ, and when he was not kneeling with the shepherds, he was singing with the angels. 

Quote #2

Here is a quote from that great Restorer, Martin Luther.

There are many of you in this congregation who think to yourselves: "If only I had been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby! I would have washed his linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!" Yes, you would! You say that because you know how great Christ is, but if you had been there at that time you would have done no better than the people of Bethlehem.  Childish and silly thoughts are these!  Why don't you do it now? You have Christ in your neighbor. You ought to serve him, for what you do to your neighbor in need you do to the Lord Christ himself. 
                                                                                                                

Quote #3

Here's a gem from C.S. Lewis. It comes from his book, "The Last Battle."

"Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world." 

Quote #4

This is from St. Ambrose and reflects upon the willingness of Christ to humble Himself; to come down from the glories of heaven, be born of a woman, wrapped in swaddling cloths, and laid in a manger.

Because of you, weakness; in Himself, power. for your sakes, needy; in Himself, rich. Don't judge that which you see, but acknowledge that you are redeemed. Lord Jesus, I owe to your poverty by which I have been redeemed more than the riches by which I have been created, for it would have been no advantage that I was born unless I also had the advantage of being redeemed. 

Quote #5

I'll finish this out with a fantastic though from St. Augustine. 
He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy, He the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

 Previous Posts in the series:
7 Christmas Albums
6 Christmas Prophecies 

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