Gaze Upon Jesus Quotes

“Grace and grief, glory and the Cross... they are inseparably linked from the start. It's something hidden deep in the mystery of God, that these opposites can coexist and be redemptive.”
― Sarah Christmyer, Gaze Upon Jesus: Experiencing Christ's Childhood through the Eyes of Women

“In Mary's song, which we know as the Magnificat,... she draws on a long line of biblical songs of women. She has learned these songs through years of meditating on scripture and learning by heart the Word that is now taking flesh in her. Now this flowers forth in a song that gives those old songs their true meaning. The great things that God has done throughout history — showing strength and mercy and fulfilling his promises — all are about to take definitive shape in the fruit of Mary's womb.”
― Sarah Christmyer, Gaze Upon Jesus: Experiencing Christ's Childhood through the Eyes of Women

“By borrowing this language from {Old Testament] scripture, Luke shows us that what was from the start a distinguishing feature of God's people—his presence among them in the Ark of the Covenant—was only a hint of the far more marvelous truth. Mary is a "new Ark" through which not only God's glorious presence but also God himself in the flesh comes to live in and with his people!”
― Sarah Christmyer, Gaze Upon Jesus: Experiencing Christ's Childhood through the Eyes of Women