Quotes About Incarnation

The Holy Scriptures, by bearing witness to the incarnation, death, and resurrection of the Son of God, create in man by the Holy Ghost a faith which justifies him.1 —J.H. Merle d

I didn't love David Bowie. Sure, I loved a lot of his songs, like everybody else, and, like everybody else, I had an incarnation of Bowie that I loved best - in my case, the solemn 'art-rock' Bowie of the late Seventies.

From the point of view of the history of religions, the Incarnation represents the last and most perfect hierophany ... To accept the possibility of the Absolute becoming incarnate in a historical person ... is to recognize that the countless pre-Christian generations were not victims of an illusion when they proclaimed the presence of the sacred, i.e., of the divine, in the objects and rhythms of the cosmos.

Time turns into pleroma by the very fact of the incarnation of the divine Word: but this fact itself transfigures history.

The pharaoh is the incarnation of maat, a term translated by "truth" but whose general meaning is "good order" and hence "right," "justice.

Nowhere in the history of religions do we find an adoration of any natural object in itself. A sacred thing, whatever its form and substance, is sacred because it reveals or shares in ultimate reality. Every religious object is always an "incarnation" of something: of the sacred.

Translating Plato's philosophy to the context of Christian belief, Augustine finds that "out of a certain compassion for the masses God Most High bent down and subjected the authority of the divine intellect even to the human body itself"—in the incarnation of Jesus, the God-Man—so that God might recall "to the intelligible world souls blinded by the darkness of error and befouled by the slime of the body.

I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate.

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

The odds are great, so great as to be almost impossible. But they are no greater than the odds against a soul landing in a human incarnation. And you," Rinpoche was staring right at me, "you have beaten those odds. And so I ask you, what are you going to do with this opportunity?

And so it can be today: Lutherans—with their understanding of creation, incarnation, God's presence in the Sacraments, His governance of the world, and His involvement in human vocations—can bring back not only belief in God but also belief in reality.

John wishes to emphasize that it was God himself in the Word who entered human history, not as a phantom, but as a real man of flesh. The word translated "to dwell" (esk?n?sen), or "to tabernacle," is a biblical metaphor for God's presence. This statement "implies that God himself was present in the flesh, in abasement."11

The text does not say that he emptied himself of the morph? theou or of equality with God. From other references we know that Paul regards Jesus incarnate as the embodiment of deity (Col. 1:19). All that the text states is that "he emptied himself by taking something else to himself, namely, the manner of being, the nature or form of a servant or slave."47 By becoming human, by entering on a path of humiliation that led to death, the divine Son of God emptied himself.

I would not think twice about being part of any incarnation of the 'X-Men' films.

Don't try to transport something you don't possess...I want this truth to be incarnational.

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

Jesus became flesh to reveal God in His love and kindness

Ultraconservative Russian Orthodox priests denounced it as an incarnation of evil, using as proof the undeniable fact that potatoes are not mentioned in the Bible.

There's never been a time when there hasn't been ritualistic dancing, and I think clubbing is our modern incarnation of that.

Regardless of your history, you are magnificent intelligent beings who have chosen this incarnation to enhance your planetary functioning and expand your spiritual awareness en masse. This is your sacred agreement and a powerful co-creation began when the Divine Forces combined with your Collective Consciousness in your planet's energetic shift. It is Man's "asking" and your Divine Creator

Body and soul together give glory to God: the sharper the capacity for sorrow and joy, the greater the hallowing; the subtler the delicacy of the daily life, the surer is Christ proved in it. In office or home or hospital; prison, barracks, or church—anywhere at all where men and women are—the mystery of the Incarnation can bear fruit in bodies and souls all day and all night, too.