Quotes about Birth

In the Gospel story we find five great points of special importance; the birth, the life on earth, the death, the resurrection, and the ascension. In these we have what an old writer has called the process of Jesus Christ; the process by which He became what He is to-day--our glorified King, and our life. In all this life process we must be made like unto Him.

There is no possibility of salvation but in and by the birth of the meek, humble, patient, resigned Lamb of God in our souls.

In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of hell.

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

Mary is the only possible witness to Jesus's conception and birth. And Luke is a credible witness to Mary's "pondering.

In order that Christ's body might be shown to be a real body, He was born of a woman. In order that His Godhead might be made clear, He was born of a virgin.

Allegorically (St. Cyril of Alexandria, Catena of the Greek Fathers): the setting of Christ's birth points us to the Eucharist. Since through sin man becomes like the beasts, Christ lies in the trough where animals feed, offering them, not hay, but his own body as life-giving bread.

It   is a horrible thing to pour out seed besides the intercourse of man and woman. Deliberately avoiding the intercourse, so that the seed drops on   the ground, is double horrible. For this means that one quenches the hope of his family, and kills the son, which could be expected, before he is born.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.