Our culture is becoming increasingly one in which meanness is synonymous with good business, shrewd practice and safe profits. Generosity is ‘uneconomic’, unless everyone knows about it and it makes good publicity. Compassion too is ‘uneconomic’, because it gobbles up resources, time and energy.
(Elaine Storkey, “Mary’s Story, Mary’s Song”)
"Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and you will call him Immanuel."
Isaiah 7: 14