2 Feb 17

The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human 

baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to 

talk like any other child. The more you think about 

it, the more staggering it gets.  Nothing in fiction 

is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation. 

     --J.I. Packer (1926-    ) 

      _Knowing God_ [1973] 

Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things 

in which they were thought to be strongest.  Moses 

failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah 

in his courage, for one woman scared him away to 

that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was 

boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny 

his Lord. 

     --Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) 

      (In Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert's 

      _Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers_ [1895])