The Great Enters the Little
[The influential French writer] “Montaigne became kittenish with his kitten but she never talked philosophy to him. Everywhere the great enters the little―its power to do so is almost the test of its greatness.”
~C. S. Lewis
“God so often surprises us by doing big things in little places, by resisting the proud and exalting the humble, by choosing ordinary people to do great things, and, in general, by doing the unexpected. What more humble circumstance could we imagine than an unmarried, pregnant teenage girl, with her betrothed husband, hurrying nearly a hundred miles from little Nazareth to little Bethlehem? What could be more humbling than enrolling in a census late in a pregnancy, settling for less than ideal accommodations, and giving birth far from the centers of power? The Great enters the little. God becomes a baby. Think of it. The Creator of the universe stoops to become a child.”
~Joel Heck
~C. S. Lewis
“God so often surprises us by doing big things in little places, by resisting the proud and exalting the humble, by choosing ordinary people to do great things, and, in general, by doing the unexpected. What more humble circumstance could we imagine than an unmarried, pregnant teenage girl, with her betrothed husband, hurrying nearly a hundred miles from little Nazareth to little Bethlehem? What could be more humbling than enrolling in a census late in a pregnancy, settling for less than ideal accommodations, and giving birth far from the centers of power? The Great enters the little. God becomes a baby. Think of it. The Creator of the universe stoops to become a child.”
~Joel Heck
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