Some of the Best Christmas Quotes

“Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.” CS Lewis

“The Son of God became man so that men might become sons of God.” ~ Athanasius

“The baby Mary carried was not a Caesar, a man who would become god, but a far greater wonder, the true God
who would become man.” ~ Ken Hughes

“The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the
incarnation.” ~J.I. Packer

“He was not just a prophet telling [us] how to find God, [he was] God himself [who came] to find us.” ~Tim Keller

“No powerful person dares to approach the manger, and this even includes King Herod. For this is where thrones
shake, the mighty fall, the prominent perish, because God is with the lowly. Here the rich come to nothing, because
God is with the poor and hungry, but the rich and satisfied he sends away empty.” ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“We are such insignificant creatures on a minor planet of a very average star in the outer suburbs of one of a
hundred thousand million galaxies. So, it is difficult to believe in a God that would care about us or even notice our
existence.” ~Stephen Hawking

“It is staggering for me to perceive that the Lord Jesus Christ is the glory of the Lord revealed to us. It is more
staggering to grasp that he is the glory of the Lord revealed for us. It is most staggering of all to understand that he
is the glory of God revealed in us. Christ in you, the hope of glory.” ~John MacArthur

“There is such richness and goodness in this nativity that if we should see and deeply understand, we should be
dissolved in perpetual joy.” ~Martin Luther

“So Christ, our great Creator-King, who sat amid the glory of the everlasting Throne, while a million suns revolved
about his feet, heard, clear and shrill amid the music of the spheres, the wail of one little world that was lost. The
Son of Man heard all the sighings and the cryings, the moanings and the groanings of this sin-blighted world
converge into one vast, vacant, unutterable cry, and, leaving the glory of principalities and powers, he set forth to
save it.” ~FW Boreham

“This universe is at war, [and] it is a civil war, a rebellion, and…we are living in …Enemy-occupied territory---that is
what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and
is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.” ~CS Lewis

“[Jesus didn’t] simply step aside to look at [our] sorrows. He went directly to them and lived wholly in them;
scattered glorious miracles and sacred truths along the hidden by-paths and in the mean recesses of existence.”
~FW Boreham

The Roman poet Horace gave advice to ancient playwrights who drove him crazy when they would use a god to
solve all the plot problems: “Do not bring a god onto the stage unless the problem is one that deserves a GOD to
solve it!”

“God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than himself,
meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is. ~AW Tozer
“That baby in the manger came as a conquering king to dethrone us and to enthrone himself in our hearts and lives
forever and ever.” ~Paul Tripp

“All the good things in life are less than nothing when compared with his love. All the treasures of a million worlds
could not make me richer, for his unsearchable riches are mine in Christ.” ~Valley of Vision

“The Bible isn’t a book about 1,000 principles to live by. It is a book about 1 person to live for.” ~ David Bruskas

“Man’s maker was made man, that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother’s breast; that the Bread might
hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that the Truth might be accused of false
witness, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak;
that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.” ~ Augustine

“Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, all honor, all reputation, all
vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger; whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high;
whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory of God precisely in his lowliness.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“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

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

“He created the mother he had chosen.” ~ Augustine

“The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle
prepares for this, or exhibits this, or results from this.” ~ C.S. Lewis

“Waiting is the hardest work of hope.” ~ Lewis Smedes

“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. Oh, the wonder of Christmas.” ~ Charles Spurgeon

“In like manner did the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, surrounded as he is with the splendors of a wide and
everlasting monarchy, turn him to our humble habitation; and the footsteps of God manifest in the flesh have been
on the narrow spot of ground we occupy; and small though our mansion be amid the orbs and the systems of
immensity…the King of glory bent his mysterious way, and entered the tabernacle of men, and in the disguise of a
servant did he sojourn for years under the roof which canopies our obscure and solitary world.” ~ Dr. Thomas
Chalmers

“In the Christian story, God descends to reascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into
time and space, down into humanity…but he goes down to come up again…and to bring the whole ruined world
up with him. [Like] a strong man stooping lower and lower to get himself underneath some great complicated
burden. He must stoop in order to lift, he must almost disappear under the load before he incredibly straightens his
back and marches off…with the whole mass swaying on his shoulders.” ~ C. S. Lewis

“Jesus left the place where there is no suffering to suffer on your behalf, so your destiny would be a place where
suffering is no more.” ~ Paul Tripp

“We were made for two worlds and as surely as we now inhabit the one, we shall also inhabit the other.”
~ AW Tozer
“The word that he ached to speak became flesh…Wren expressed himself in granite, turner expressed himself in
oils, Michelangelo expressed himself in marble; Shakespeare expressed himself in ink. But God selected flesh as the
ideal vehicle for self-expression. The word was made flesh. He therefore selected the hallmark of man’s humanity
as the supreme vehicle for the revelation of his love.” ~FW Boreham

“Christmas is the end of thinking you are better than someone else, because Christmas is telling you that you could
never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.” ~ Tim Keller

“When anyone bows before Christ, as the wise men worshiped him, The Christ child is born afresh; and the heart is
the inn; and the angels sing again as they sang in the fields of Bethlehem; and shepherds and sages come once
more to see the wonder that has come to pass. And, in that same soul, all the miracles are repeated; blindness
vanishes; song visits mute lips; deafness yields to the hearing of unutterable things…and death trembles into life.
That is the message of Christmas, and every Christmas as it comes lends to that message…a new music.”
~ FW Boreham

“All the good things of life are less than nothing compared with his love…all the treasures of a million worlds could
not make me richer, for his unsearchable riches are mine in Christ.” ~ Valley of Vision

“As Christians, we know that in this world we have no continuing city, that crowns roll in the dust and that every
earthly kingdom must sometime flounder. We acknowledge a King men did not crown and cannot dethrone, and
we are citizens of a city of God they did not build and cannot destroy.” ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

"Let me with Simeon clasp the new-born child to my heart, embrace him with undying faith, exulting that he is mine
and I am his. In him thou has given me so much that heaven can give no more." ~ Valley of Vision

“Some don’t want to die until they’ve seen the world. Simeon’s dream was not so timid. He didn’t want to die until
he had seen the Maker of the world.” ~Max Lucado

“All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be
said of him. Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then that
matters not, for we shall always be with him, and we desire nothing more. ~ Frederick William Faber

T.V. Host Larry King was once asked, if he could interview one person from history who would it be?
“Jesus Christ,” he replied. The interviewer went on to ask, “If you could only ask him one question, what would it
be, and why?” King responded: “I would ask him if he was really born of a virgin, because the answer to that
question changes everything.”

“Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

That rightly understood is a prayer that turns principalities and powers upside down. It turns the world upside down.
It is not merely a part of the cultural landscape. Christians above all must understand that it is the declaration of a
theological revolution. A revolution that is centered in the Trinitarian being of God the father, God the son and God
the Holy Spirit, a revolution that states that only one name is to be hallowed and that is the name of God, our father
and it is a statement that in its very earliest words declares that which is a threat to every kingdom and every power
on earth. ~Albert Mohler

“This is Christmas-day, the anniversary of the world’s greatest event. To one day all the early world looked forward;
to the same day the later world looks back. That day holds time together. Isaiah, standing on the peaks of prophecy,
looked across ruined empires and the desolations of many centuries, and saw on the horizon the new star arise, and
was glad.” ~Alexander Smith (1863)