12 Days of Christmas Quotes: Day 7

The divine son became a Jew; the Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, unable to do more than lie and stare and wriggle and make noises, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. 

(J.I.Packer)

12 Days of Christmas Quotes: Day 6

One may think of a diver first reducing himself to nakedness, then glancing in mid-air, then gone with a splash, vanished, rushing down through green and warm water into black and cold water, down through the increasing pressure into the deathlike region of ooze and slime and old decay, and then back up again, back to color and light, his lungs almost bursting until suddenly he breaks the surface again, holding in his hand the dripping, precious thing he went down to recover. That dripping, precious thing is you and I, and Advent is when we celebrate his coming down to us. 

(C.S.Lewis)

12 Days of Christmas Quotes: Day 5

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)

12 Days of Christmas Quotes: Day 4

The glory of the incarnation is that it presents to our adoring gaze not a humanised God or a deified man, but a true God-man - one who is all that God is and at the same time all that man is: one on whose almighty arm we can rest, and to whose human sympathy we can appeal.
(Benjamin B. Warfield)

12 Days of Christmas Quotes: Day 3

The awful majesty of the Godhead was mercifully sheathed in the soft envelope of human nature to protect mankind.
(A.W.Tozer)

12 Days of Christmas Quotes: Day 2

Our Lord came down from life to suffer death;the Bread came down, to hunger;
the Way came down, on the way to weariness;
the Fount came down, to thirst. He so loved us that, for our sake,
He was made man in time, although through him all times were made.
He was made man, who made man.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.(Augustine)

12 Days of Christmas Quotes: Day 1

Rejoice that the immortal God is born that mortal men may live in eternity.

(Jan Hus)

12 Quotations of Christmas

Post-Christmas Day is often a quieter time of year for many, when the demands of work and routine are put aside and we enjoy time with family and friends and generally recover from the busyness and 'non-stop-ness' of life.

For that reason, for the last few years I have marked the 12 days of Christmas with 12 blogs designed to provoke thought and reflection and get us set up for the new year. 

This year I thought I'd do something a little different.

So starting tomorrow are '12 Quotations of Christmas'. Short, bitesize, hopefully thought-provoking and praise-instilling chunks of wisdom.

Hope you enjoy them.

To get you started, here's a quotation about quotations...

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. 

(Joseph Roux)

Christmas: Time to Seek

On Sunday we had our Carols by Candlelight service at Woodgreen. As part of that we showed a video that some of you said you'd like to see again. So here it is. Feel free to pass it on...

Direct Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb9YVx26ljg