Quotes about Birth

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.

When Christ was born, so was our hope.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our Life's Star Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness. And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy.2