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Quotes About Incarnation

God became man that dehumanized men might become true men. We become true men in the community of the incarnate, the suffering and loving, the human God.
~ Jurgen Moltmann
The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.
~ Peter Abelard
No matter what happens while the soul is in a physical incarnation on earth, nothing can harm the soul or disrupt its connection to God. Moreover, our soul is always trying to express its true essence through our lives.
~ Tamar Frankiel
All of us have the gifts we need to reflect the image of God, each in our own unique way. The very fact that we have arrived here, in human incarnation, tells us that we have the courage to take on the task. Although
~ Tamar Frankiel
no one can deny the differences between the populaces of nations, in both physical appearance and temperament. This can only be the result of the maternal influence: the mother's womb is a vessel in which the social environment is incarnated. For example,
~ Ted Chiang
As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.
~ Sinead O'Connor
Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God.
~ Origen
God became man so that man might become a god.
~ Athanasius of Alexandria
God became man, that we might be gods.
~ Irenaeus of Lyons
GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.
~ Clement of Alexandria
Christ was made man that we might be made God.
~ Athanasius of Alexandria
The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.
~ C. S. Lewis
Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.
~ Henry Allen Ironside
Men forsook God, and made carved images of men. Since therefore an image of man was falsely worshipped as God, God became truly Man, that the falsehood might be done away.
~ Cyril of Jerusalem
She who received the seed of eternal glory Now dispenses grace, the seed of glory-to-come. My womb was the chalice of the impenetration of God That became the Incarnation of God and man
~ Catherine Doherty
Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
~ Edith Stein
Enoch...why are you here? Why has my spirit been incarnated into a physical bodi in this world generally? Or specifically, why am I here in a Swedish forest, standing on the wreck of a mysterious German rocket plane while a homosexual German sobs over the cremated remains of his Italian lover?
~ Neal Stephenson
The incarnation affirms the importance of childhood.
~ Catherine Stonehouse
The incarnation, passion, and resurrection of the Son do not modify the Trinity. In becoming man, the Son 'enhanced human nature without diminishing the divine.' 'Even when the Word takes a body from Mary, the Trinity remains a Trinity, with neither increase nor decrease. It is forever perfect.
~ Gilles Emery
No hay más Dios que el hombre y cada hombre tiene su encarnación.
~ Giovanni Papini
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
~ C. S. Lewis
As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge