Bethlehem Quotes

“Yet, again, is there not a scene in which we all pay our dear Lord back with our lives for the life that he gave us? What is a Christian life but a lingering death, of which physical death is but the last consummating act? and if it be not all for Christ, how is it a Christian life?”
― Frederick William Faber, Bethlehem: The Sacred Infancy of Our Most Dear and Blessed Redeemer

“Jesus Christ yesterday, and today, and the same forever! These words of the apostle express at once the noblest and the most delightful occupation of our lives. To think, to speak, to write perpetually of the grandeurs of Jesus - what joy on earth is like it, when we think of what we owe to him, and of the relation in which we stand to him? Who can weary of it? The subject is continually growing before our eyes. It draws us on. It is a science the fascination of which increases the more deeply we penetrate into its depths. That which is to be our occupation in eternity usurps more and more with sweet encroachments the length and breadth of time.”
― Frederick William Faber, Bethlehem: The Sacred Infancy of Our Most Dear and Blessed Redeemer