Peter Mead > Peter's Quotes

“The god of love had shot all his arrows, but could never pierce his heart, till at length he put himself into the bow.”
― Henry Scougal, The Life of God in the Soul of Man

“What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?”
― Martin Luther

“Think about this. The God of the universe became a wiggling baby in order to get close to you.”
― Timothy Keller

“The God of love sent the Son of His love to rescue us from the bondage of self-love so that we could be free to love others”
― Paul David Tripp

“The glory of the incarnation is that it presents to our adoring gaze not a humanized God or a deified man, but a true God-man.”
― B.B. Warfield

“God as a helpless baby, he could only lie, stare, wriggle, make noises. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets!”
― J.I. Packer

“When all his other gifts could not prevail, he at last made a gift of himself, to testify his affection and engage theirs.”
― Henry Scougal

“The incarnation is the indispensable basis for union with Christ.”
― Robert Letham, Union with Christ: In Scripture, History, and Theology