Augustine: Notable and Quotable (2)

Let us announce the coming of our Savior with joy! He lies in a manger but he holds the world in his hands; he is wrapped in swaddling clothes but he clothes us with immortality. We should not look down on his human birth but marvel that it occurred. On Christmas strength took on weakness that weakness might become strong. From his human birth let us come to understand how God emptied himself for our sake.

—Augustine, Sermon 190, 1