'Our Lord Jesus Christ is, in some senses, more completely man than Adam ever was. Adam was not born; he was created as a man. Adam never had to struggle through the risks and weaknesses of infancy; he knew not the littlenesses of childhood, - he was full-grown at once. Father Adam could not sympathize with me as a babe and a child: but He is cradled with us, He accompanies in the pains, and feebleness, and infirmities of infancy, and He continues with us even to the grave.'
'That any of us should be willing to seek after the lost is nothing wonderful - they are of our own race; but that He, the offended God, against whom the transgression has been committed, should take upon Himself the form of a servant, and bear the sin of many, and then should be willing to receive the vilest of the vile, this is marvellous.'
'There are some points in which no one man is all that manhood is; but Jesus was the summary of all manhood. I might also venture to say that he had about him the whole nature of mankind, as it respects the mental conformation of both man and woman, for he was as tender as a woman though as strong as a man. Holy women, as much as godly men, find in Jesus all that is in their own souls. There is nothing effeminate in him, and yet all the loveliness which is feminine; read his life-story and see. He was a man in the broadest sense of the term, taking up the whole genus.'
'You must not transform his humanity into deity: his deity is everywhere, but his substantial humanity can only be in its proper place, and to suppose it to be everywhere is virtually to deny that it is anywhere.'
'He, on whom all worlds are hanging, hangs upon a woman's breast. He must do that, or he cannot put away sin.'
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