Jesus Manger Quotes

#1. I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Frazier

#2. Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy.

Tim Wise

#3. We are in need of a way out of our poverty of soul and the desperate state of our human condition. We find it in this child lying in a manger, who was and is Jesus Christ, the long-promised Messiah, Seed, Redeemer, and King.

Stephen Nichols

#4. There is a lot to celebrate about that little Babe who was laid in a manger. Christians celebrate Christmas because they are thankful for the promise of salvation, which was delivered in human flesh and named Jesus.

Monica Johnson

#5. I am what I want to be," he said. "You forgot that - and that was your mistake.

L.J.Smith

#6. Through the eyes of men an utterly irrational birth followed by a terribly improbable execution are miscues of the most pathetic sort. And all I can say is that I'm immeasurably thankful that I've been given access to the eyes of God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. I am the captain of my soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. In the forty-five years centered on 1910, the nature of the atom was first understood - partly by shooting pieces of atoms at atoms and watching how they bounce off.

Carl Sagan

#9. Oh, dear God and baby Jesus in the manger, my eyes!" Dee shrieked. "My eyes!

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. The best way to see majesty is to strip away everything that pretends to be majestic so that which is fake wholly collapses in the face of that which is majestic. And God in a manger is likely the most remarkable example we have of such a monumental truth.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter.

Allen Lacy

#12. Given the lethal enormity of sin and the inestimable value of a single soul, a baby in a manger and a man on a cross makes more sense that anything else I will ever be able to possibly imagine.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. Non-stop gore doesn't shock; it bores.

Rayne Hall

#14. The sure path to tomorrow was plotted in a manger and paved on a cross. And although this sturdy byway is mine for the taking, I have incessantly chosen lesser paths. And maybe it is time to realize that Christmas is a promise that I can walk through the world and never get lost in the woods.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#15. I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.

William Beveridge

#16. In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

John Burdett

#17. Despite my incessant desperation, I simply cannot paint the perfect picture within which I would wish to live out my life. And because I cannot, God picked up the brush of love, positioned the canvas of history and painted a manger.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#19. Jesus took His place in a manger so that we might have a home in Heaven.

Greg Laurie

#20. The hands of man can manufacture many things both penetratingly brilliant and utterly astounding. Yet, despite their amazing dexterity and profound skill they cannot manufacture hope. Such a masterpiece as that is left for the hands of God and a manger crafted by those hands.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. I can only begin the process of saving myself when I surrender to the reality that I can't. And what greater place to surrender that reality than to an infant who surrendered Himself to me so that I might surrender myself to Him.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. Children's parties were obviously places where any angel with an ounce of common sense should fear to tread.

Terry Pratchett

#23. Sheep and goats and cows
gather 'round a manger bed
to awe at a babe.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#24. Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for His bed: Mary was that Mother mild Jesus Christ her little Child ... With the poor, and mean, and lowly, Lived on earth our Savior Holy.

Cecil Frances Alexander

#25. A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Michel De Montaigne

#26. It'll never go away until the fear you are running from is finally embraced.

Garth Brooks