Quotes About Incarnation

Tot astfel în ce priveÈ™te mântuirea: alegerea È™i planul trimit la Tat?l, actul propriu-zis È™i s?vârÈ™irea sa [trimit] la Fiul, iar realizarea la Sfântul Duh; c?ci prin Sfântul Duh S-a întrupat Cristos È™i prin Sfântul Duh renasc spiritual aleÈ™ii.

This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He ever had wrapped in our skin. He learned how to walk, stumbled and fell, cried for His milk, sweated blood in the night, was lashed with a whip and showered with spit, was fixed to a cross, and died whispering forgiveness on us all.

You have to acknowledge where you are and affirm that place. You have to be willing to live your loneliness, your incompleteness, your lack of total incarnation fearlessly, and trust that God will give you the people to keep showing you the truth of who you are.

Life in the Spirit of Jesus is therefore a life in which Jesus' coming into the world—his incarnation, his death, and resurrection—is lived out by those who have entered into the same obedient relationship to the Father which marked Jesus' own life. Having become sons and daughters as Jesus was Son, our lives become a continuation of Jesus' mission.

He was distinguished to the tips of his polished nails, and there was not a movement of his fine perpendicular person that was not noble and majestic. Newman had never yet been confronted with such an incarnation of the art of taking oneself seriously; he felt a sort of impulse to step backward, as you do to get a view of a great facade.

Nothing will avail to offset this virus which is poisoning the whole world. America is the very incarnation of doom. She will drag the whole world down to the bottomless pit.

America is the very incarnation of doom. She will drag the whole world down to the bottomless pit.

I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

There is no such thing as reincarnation, but only similar incarnation.

When God became flesh, every ordinary human life was validated as sacred. The fact that God became human and spent most of His life in obscurity as a carpenter in a small village called Nazareth gives us perspective. Through the incarnation, we learn that every life has dignity and significance; every ordinary life matters.

The Incarnation of God in Jesus is the greatest moment that has ever occurred in time or eternity.

I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.

A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations

How could the Buddha have believed that being incarnated as a human being was fortunate? Had he ever been to Georgia?

Traditional theologians use another word for solidarity: incarnation

Incarnation, the limitation of mind by matter, is an outrage to the imagination.

Each of us is meant to come face to face with the depths of our being and awaken to our greatest fulfillment: becoming conscious children of the universe, incarnating the unconditional love that created us all.

The Word is, by definition, immanent in the divinity and active in the world, and as such the Father's revelation. A revelation of the Father without the Logos and his incarnation would be like speaking without words.

Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose.

Christ re-enacts in the outward historical world what is being enacted at all times in the inner world of the soul. In man the Spirit becomes the ego in order that the ego may become pure Spirit; the Spirit becomes ego by incarnating in the mind in the form of intellection, of truth, and the ego becomes the Spirit through uniting with it.

Other humans can die a grisly death, as Jesus did. They cannot be born, as he was, as God incarnate.

Later Bernard of Clairvaux, following on Origen's "bridal mysticism," affirms in a sermon on the Song of Songs that Christ appears three times for the believer: in his Incarnation, in his final or "second coming," and in our daily opening the Scriptures.

There is much to be cynical about—and it is a good answer if there has not been an incarnation. But if that has happened, if the Word did become flesh, and if there are men and women who in and through their own vocations imitate the vocation of God, then sometimes and in some places the world becomes something more like the way it ought to be.

The greatest display of humility that the world has ever witnessed was the incarnation of Christ, which led ultimately to his crucifixion.