The cause for which I stand is the reconciliation of mankind with God. For if that cause is accomplished, all causes are accomplished.

It was His love for us that cost Him everything. And that is the essence of Christmas that should be the substance of our lives.

Although I’m a bit tentative about it all, I would like to say that if my death saved your life I would gladly engage in such an exchange. But if I must make that exchange knowing that you are likely to reject it, and that you will turn on it and brutally ridicule it until the beauty of my sacrifice is altogether destroyed, I cannot imagine taking such an action. Yet, God does that every single day.

We tell God that He can have all of us, and then we give Him none of us. And I would suggest that ‘intent’ without ‘action’ is like a body without a skeleton. It just doesn’t stand up.

A true gift is when I give you something that I can never replace so that your life will become something that it has never been.

The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known.

I don’t have it within me to do what God does for me. That’s why he’s God and I’m not.

The only thing that Christmas didn’t change was our refusal to change, for God extends invitations but He does not demand that we accept them.

If ingenuity is an indicator of how much we love someone, then the story of Christmas is about as ingenious as you can get.