Quotes about Manger

So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph and the Baby, who was lying in the manger.

Are you afraid of God's wrath? Then go to the child in the manger and receive there the peace of God.

And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”

The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly.

Christ was born of a virgin, that we might be born of God. He took our flesh, that He might give us His Spirit. He lay in the manger that we might lie in paradise. He came down from heaven, that He might bring us to heaven. And what was all this but love? If our hearts be not rocks, this love of Christ should affect us. Behold, love that surpasses knowledge!

It was the winter wild while the Heav'n-born child all meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

The throne of God in the world is not on human thrones, but in human depths, in the manger. Standing around his throne there are no flattering vassals but dark, unknown, questionable figures who cannot get their fill of this miracle and want to live entirely by the mercy of God.

Revelation 12 presents Christmas from a cosmic perspective, adding a new set of images to the familiar scenes of manger and shepherds and the slaughter of the innocents.

And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

Again—"Are you going home for Christmas?"—and asked it in some sort of way that brought tears to my eyes and made it almost unnecessary for him to move on to his answer to the question, which was that home, finally, is the manger in Bethlehem, the place where at midnight even the oxen kneel.

In the manger God loves you; through the cross God saves you. But has he taken you to his home? Not yet.

Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?