Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived ...together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Do not be afraid; for see -I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of Da...vid a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be w...orshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places--to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, seden...tary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much mo...re intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumbler and begin to poke around for rumours of another Messiah.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary, he will come only one day after his arrival, he will not come on the la...st day, but on the last day of all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child's philosophy rests upon the assumption that the world outside is in gear with his own appetites. For this reason an adul...t with a childish character will ascribe an authority to his appetites which may easily land him in fanaticism or frustration, in a crazy indulgence or a miserable starvation. And to the environment he will ascribe a willingness to conform to him, a capacity to be owned by him, which land him in all sorts of delusions of grandeur. Only the extreme cases are in the asylums. The world is full of semi-adult persons who secretly nurse the notion that they are, or that by rights they ought to be, Don Juan, Napoleon, or the Messiah.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »