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“The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation – This story begins and ends in joy.” ~ J.“The incarnation is “a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken.” ~ Frederick Buechner.All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.” ~ Athanasius of Alexandria “The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension – above, in creation below, in the Incarnation in the depth, in Hades in the breadth, throughout the world.Never was there a word or even a look of complaint.” ~ Elisabeth Elliot He embraced the limitations, the necessities, the conditions, the very chains of His humanity as He walked and worked here on earth, fulfilling moment by moment His divine commission and the stern demands of His incarnation. “Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.” ~ J.God came to us in the incarnation in atonement He reconciled us to Himself, and by faith and love we enter and lay hold on Him.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. “In Christ and by Christ, God effects complete self-disclosure, although He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love.“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.We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world.” ~ Earl Paulk “We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began.

“Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence.” ~ John of Damascus.

“The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.” ~ Hudson Taylor.

… God is the master of disguises, in order that we might see.” ~ Richard John Neuhaus The Christian word for this is revelation, and the ultimate revelation came by incarnation. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our knowing makes himself known in the disguise of what we can know.

“Disguise is central to God’s way of dealing with us human beings.

“Be nice to one another” is not a message that can give my life meaning, assure me of love beyond brokenness, and break open the dark doors of death with the key of hope.” ~ Michael Spencer

“Without the incarnation, Christianity isn’t even a very good story, and most sadly, it means nothing.

“The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.” ~ J.

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for to make them worth it.” ~ C. They that are whole need not the physician. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity.

“Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity.“The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation.“What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself” ~ R.“The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

“Man’s maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother’s breast that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood that Strength might grow weak that the Healer might be wounded that Life might die.” ~ Saint Augustine.He went around doing good and being compassionate.” ~ Karen Armstrong “Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians.Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.” ~ J. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. “The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child.A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging incarnation quotes, incarnation sayings, and incarnation proverbs.