"Almighty God is nothing but a mental abstraction unless He becomes concrete and actual, because an ideal has no power unless it can be realized. The doctrine of the Incarnation is that God did become actual, He manifested Himself on the plane of human flesh, and Jesus Christ is name not only for God and Man in one, but the name of the personal Savior who makes the way back for every man to get into a personal relationship with God." - Oswald Chambers

"Jesus neither laid aside his deity when he came to earth nor his humanity when he returned to heaven." - Anonymous

"The incarnation of the Son of God was not a diminishing of his deity, but an acquiring of manhood." - Verna Wright

"As to his deity he had no mother, and as to his humanity he had no father." - Robert Clarke

"If the creation story, the virgin birth, the resurrection are only myths, then I'm myth-taken and myth-ified, and myth-erable!" - Vance Havner

"Jesus Christ is God in the form of man; as completely God as if he were not man; as completely man as if he were not God." - A. J. F. Behrends

"Christ was not a deified man, neither was he a humanized God. He was perfectly God and at the same time perfectly man." - C. H. Spurgeon

"Those who deny that Jesus was without a human father must explain how he was without human failure." - Anonymous

"The God who took a motherless woman out of the side of a man took a fatherless man out of the body of a woman." - Matthew Henry

"Christ is God shining through the personality of a man, and shining unhindered. His sacred humanity does not veil His divine beauty in any degree." - A. W. Tozer

"The Incarnation was not for the Self-realization of God, but for the purpose of removing sin and reinstating humanity into communion with God." - Oswald Chambers

"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I founded empires; but upon what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ alone founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"The greatest man in history was the poorest." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Jesus is God spelling himself out in language that man can understand." - S. D. Gordon

"It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced." - Bishop Fulton Sheen

"Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Manger and the Cross, the birth and the death, must always be seen together." - J. Sidlow Baxter

"It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself." - Charles Dickens

"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 Christ became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross." - J. I. Packer

"The birth of Jesus is the sunrise in the Bible." - Henry Van Dyke

"To travel the road to Bethlehem is to keep a rendezvous with wonder, to answer the call of wisdom, and to bow the knee in worship." - John A. Knight

"The Son of God became man to enable men to become the sons of God." - C. S. Lewis

"Christmas is when God came down the stairs of heaven with a baby in His arms." - R. Eugene Sterner

"A Christian should observe Christmas in wonder, worship and witness." - John Vander Ploeg

"If we were going to try to take the focus off Christ at Christmas...If I were determined to conceal the true meaning of Christmas... I would make sure society put an emphasis on lights instead of THE light, on stars on trees instead of THE star, on Santa instead of a lowly stable. I would leave the baby in the manger, I wouldn't take the rest of the trip to the Cross. I would make sure that getting gifts was more important than the greatest gift given to man. I would encourage buying instead of reminding people that one came to buy them back and redeem them from sin. That's what I would do, if I wanted to subvert the true message of the season." Michael Catt

Jesus Christ and His Incarnation