When God revealed Himself to this poor world of ours, men cried in astonishment: ‘Why, it is a child?’  And so it is that the closer we get to God the more we become children, and the closer God gets to us the more He becomes a child.  No one in the world ever suspected that the Ancient of Days Who presided at creation would take His throne in that creation as a babe in a crib, just as no one ever thought He would tell the old men of forty, like Nicodemus, that they must be born again.  Christmas, then, is the coronation of childhood, the glorification of the young whose hearts are simple, the proclamation to aging hearts that the world need not despair and die, because the Fountain of Youth has come into it to turn time backward, make old things young again.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (In the Fullness of Time)