"If we are sometimes afraid of the majesty and eternity of God, let us go to that little Child in a stable, who holds out His Arms to us so lovingly. He is our God. Let us go to Nazareth and there contemplate the boyhood of the Eternal: His kind and beautiful Face, His tender and compassionate glance. He is our God. Let us go to the plains of Palestine and make our way through the crowd who press round Jesus of Nazareth; we shall see the sick stretch out their hands in supplication to Him; sinful women find pardon and salvation at His Feet; children play in His Arms and only leave Him after having received His blessing and caresses. That merciful Jesus is our God."

~ L'Abbe Max Caron, "The Expectation of Jesus: Meditations for Every Day in Advent", 1900.