Quotes About Incarnation

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that, realizes that he is in the midst, that takes heed to the assurance of his loving presence, will be quiet in the midst of alarm.

God must have said, "I know what I'll do, I'll send my Love right down there where they are. And I'll send it as a tiny baby, so they'll have to touch it, and they'll have to hold it close."

What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

The God of the incarnation is more domestic than monastic.

In Jesus Christ, God took on a human face and became our friend and brother.

The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.

The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

Christ is God clothed with human nature.

What I am trying to say is that Jesus who incarnated God 2,000 years ago is mystically present and waiting to be discovered in EVERY person you and I encounter

For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands... and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.

The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly.

Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.

As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.

The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.

You know, people always talk about how Jesus came down to Earth as a human being. He became a human being, But no one ever takes into account what that means.

People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.

Selve kernen i evangeliet er Jesu fortsatte gerning gennem sit legeme - menigheden - her på jorden, nøjagtig tilsvarende den gerning, han havde, da han var inkarneret - blot større i omfang.

God, on Christian lights, isn't just high, lofty, far away, distant, unsullied with us. God, in Christian thought, is Jewish. Human. Not just great and holy but little and lowly. ... God becomes our neighbour. ... If it takes a neighbour's desire to set ours alight, then the one living and true God will become that flesh-and-blood neighbour.

Let us note in this regard a rather interesting formulation cited by Valli: in all medieval (as opposed to modern) art, 'what is at stake is the incarnation of an idea, not the idealization of a reality';

One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway… We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking… The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

St. Irenaeus (125–203), The Scandal of the Incarnation, and St. Athanasius (297–373), On the Incarnation, are two early classics that set a bar of good theology that we have since seldom matched or even understood. The mystery of incarnation is the unique trump card that Christianity adds to the deck of world religions.