Quotes about Incarnation

The world seeks it for us, who have need of such illumination. So also the Word became flesh, not for himself, but rather to bring the mystery of the Incarnation to reality for our sakes.

"Incarnation" does not concern just the events of his conception and birth. It was the taking on of "flesh" in all its human meaning. He could live in your circumstances now. He could be you and still live in the kingdom of God. You can be his apprentice no matter who and where you are. It is as his personal friends, living interactively with him, that we know the truth and have the freedom—the power over evil—that comes with such knowledge.

God relates to space as we do to our body. He occupies and overflows it but cannot be localized in it. Every point in it is accessible to his consciousness and will, and his manifest presence can be focused in any location as he sees fit. In the incarnation he focused his reality in a special way in the body of Jesus.

Why did Christ become Man if not to save men by uniting them mystically with God through His own Sacred Humanity?

I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate.

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.

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

Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God.

God became man, that we might be gods.

GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.

The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.

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.