Some amazing quotes about Jesus

My Jesus, supreme and true God! 
What has drawn Thee from heaven to be born in a cold stable, if not the love which Thou bearest us men? 
What has allured thee from the bosom of Thy Father, to place Thee in a hard manger? 
What has brought Thee from Thy throne above the stars to lay Thee down on a little straw? 
What has led Thee from the midst of the choirs of angels, to set thee between the animals? 
Thou, who inflamest the seraphim with holy fire, art now shivering with cold in this stable!
Thou, who settest the stars in the sky in motion, canst not now move unless others carry Thee in their arms! 
Thou, who givest men and beasts their food, hast need now of a little milk to sustain Thy life! 
Thou, who art the joy of heaven, dost now whimper and cry in suffering!  Tell me who has reduced Thee to such misery? 
“Love has done it,” says Saint Bernard.  The love which Thou bearest us men has brought all this on Thee.
Calvin Miller The Book of Jesus p226 (Quoting St. Alphonsus Liguori) 

He was a baby and a child, so that you may be a perfect human.  He was wrapped in swaddling clothes, so that you may be freed from the snares of death.  He was in a manger, so that you may be in the altar.  He was on earth that you may be in the stars.  He had no other place in the inn, so that you may have many mansions in the heavens.  “He, being rich, became poor for your sakes, that through his poverty you might be rich.”  Therefore his poverty is our inheritance, and the Lord’s weakness is our virtue.  He chose to lack for himself, that he may abound for all.  The sobs of that appalling infancy cleanse me, those tears wash away my sins.
Ancient Christian Commentary: Luke, p 38 

“Unless a person is acquainted with trembling awe, reaching down to the very ground of his being, at the thought of God’s nature (not merely the awe he feels in the face of the “mysteries of existence” and the deep things of the world), he will not be ready for the contemplation of Jesus Christ.  At the least, he will need to prepare himself in the school of the Old Covenant.  Otherwise he will be in danger of coming to Christ like someone blind and dumb, finding nothing more in him than an example of perfect humanity; such a person would not be contemplating God, but man, i.e., himself.  Anyone contemplating the life of Jesus needs to be newly and more deeply aware every day that something impossible, something scandalous has occurred:  that God, in his absolute Being, has resolved to manifest himself in a human life (and is in a position to make this resolve effective!) He must be scandalized by this, he must feel his mind reeling, the very ground giving way beneath his feet; he must at least experience that “ecstasy” of non-comprehension which transported Jesus contemporaries (Mk 2:12; Mk 5:42; Mk 6:51)…The multitude’s astonishment was often more in the nature of an external amazement at the miraculous signs; where the praying contemplative is concerned, therefore, his astonishment at the truth he has beheld will be all the more profound.  In the gospel, anyone who encounters Christ is impelled either to worship him or to pick up stones with which to stone him.  Evidently, the gospel does not foresee any other kind of response.”  Ibid, p 159-60 

“We are to be in the stable at Bethlehem as one of the shepherds, go along on the flight into Egypt, place an order with Jesus the carpenter in Nazareth, witness a healing in Capernaum, be among the five thousand who are miraculously fed and so on.  This effort is rightly demanded if the matter for meditation is to strike us as something concrete and pregnant with salvation and not pale into insipid abstractions.” “That is why, in prayer, we need to have all our senses awake, though of course we must not have anything “fleshly” (i.e., anything profane, closed off from God) on our minds.  In thought and imagination we should put ourselves into the situation where our senses can apprehend the audible word of God; if we persevere in this concrete hearing it will yield the most concrete possible encounter with God.  The universal validity, for all time, of this unique, concrete encounter, is more than adequately guaranteed by the fact that it is God who thus makes his appearance.”
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer, p 165-6