Quotes about Incarnation

The Christ event derives its meaning from the fact that the three-personed God is directly acting as one throughout the entire sequence from incarnation to ascension to Last Judgment.

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.

but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.

Jesus - "the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily" (Colossians 2:9).

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

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.

He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

Although Jesus was clearly of the masculine gender, the Christ is beyond gender, and so it should be expected that the Big Tradition would have found feminine ways, consciously or unconsciously, to symbolize the full Divine Incarnation and to give God a more feminine character—as the Bible itself often does.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

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