Quotes about Incarnation
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.
— Charles Spurgeon
If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— RC Sproul
The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.
— George Whitefield
God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.
— Timothy Keller
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
— CS Lewis
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."
— Gloria Gaither
What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself
— RC Sproul
Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.
— Timothy Keller
In Jesus Christ, God took on a human face and became our friend and brother.
— Pope Benedict XVI
God himself took this human flesh upon him.
— William Barclay