Top 100 Quotes About Incarnation
#1. The Trinitarian Christ is elevated above us; the Unitarian Christ is merely a moral man; neither can help us. The Christ who is the Incarnation of God, who has not forgotten His divinity, that Christ can help us, in Him there is no imperfection.
Swami Vivekananda
#2. I was dominated, soul, brain, and power, by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. I
Oscar Wilde
#3. I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born ... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi ... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me ...
Masashi Kishimoto
#4. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
J.I. Packer
#5. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
Albert Einstein
#6. Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. To be pleasing to God, art must be true as well as good. Truth has always been one important criterion for art. Art is the incarnation of the truth. It penetrates the surface of things to portray them as they really are.
Philip Graham Ryken
#8. If one had the smallest vestige of superstition in one, it would hardly be possible to set aside completely the idea that one is the mere incarnation, mouthpiece or medium of an almighty power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. The part of River Song, the Doctor's companion in his eleventh incarnation, was originally offered to Kate Winslet. She turned it down and the part went to Alex Kingston.
Andy Bell
#10. The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.
Simone Weil
#11. If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.
Frederick Lenz
#12. At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil.
Jon Snow
#13. Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.
Herbert Hoover
#14. I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.
Pope Francis
#15. I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.
Frantz Fanon
#16. Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
C.S. Lewis
#17. We are the body of Christ. We are the continuing incarnation of the Divine. Look around and see Jesus. We who believe and trust and love each other are the manifestation of God in this place, at this time.
Penelope J. Stokes
#18. The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection
C.S. Lewis
#19. All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost ... Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
G.K. Chesterton
#20. Prayer is a moment of incarnation - God with us. God involved in the details of my life.
Paul E. Miller
#21. There are future lives. It is not necessary to cram everything into this lifetime. You can enjoy this lifetime, go with the flow, and know it will lead you to a better life in your next incarnation.
Frederick Lenz
#22. Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#23. People can meet God within their cultural context but in order to follow God, they must cross into other cultures because that's what Jesus did in the incarnation and on the cross.
Christena Cleveland
#24. I would not think twice about being part of any incarnation of the 'X-Men' films.
James Marsden
#25. The early doctrines of the church, even doctrines like Trinity and Incarnation were originally also calls for action, calls for selflessness, calls for compassion, and unless you live that out compassionately, selflessly, you didn't understand what the doctrine was saying.
Karen Armstrong
#26. For it must be recognized that before anyone else it was God himself, the Eternal Father, who entrusted himself to the Virgin of Nazareth, giving her his own Son in the mystery of the Incarnation."87
Michael Gaitley
#27. When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of 'Optic Nerve,' I hadn't even been on a date; I hadn't had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing science fiction.
Adrian Tomine
#28. For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.
Wendell Berry
#29. If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous.
Herrick Johnson
#30. The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.
C.S. Lewis
#31. The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.
T. S. Eliot
#32. I used to make all my clothes when I was in Southern Death Cult [the first incarnation of The Cult]. I still make things to wear on stage and I am involved with sketching, choosing fabric, cutting.
Ian Astbury
#33. He was an echo chamber for all books, the physical incarnation of words, the book made human.
Daniel Pennac
#34. Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence.
John Of Damascus
#36. The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.
Hudson Taylor
#37. The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times.
Ram Dass
#38. She who received the seed of eternal glory Now dispenses grace, the seed of glory-to-come. My womb was the chalice of the impenetration of God That became the Incarnation of God and man
Catherine Doherty
#39. Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the sacrifice of the Incarnation, culminating in the sacrifice on Calvary.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#40. It is through the Incarnation that glory and beauty save the world.
Brian Zahnd
#41. Yet the history of media shows that this is just the modern incarnation of the timeless complaint of the intellectual elite, every time technology makes publishing easier, that the wrong sort of people will use it to publish the wrong sorts of things.
Tom Standage
#42. I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.
Ram Dass
#43. Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have to enjoy life and learn about life through whatever way that you find yourself going.
Frederick Lenz
#44. We are all souls wandering the cosmos and, at the same time, living our lives, but with a sense that we are passing from one incarnation to another. If something touches to the code of our soul, it is remembered for ever and affects whatever comes afterwards.
Paulo Coelho
#45. I was a big Mickey Rourke fan in his first incarnation. I thought that at the time he was America's greatest screen actor.
Jamie Sives
#46. The experience of the next life is too far away to really be concerned with. It will be an outgrowth of this incarnation and what happens between birth and death.
Frederick Lenz
#47. The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.
Alan Watts
#48. 'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's your Facebook profile, there's your email inbox. And all of these sort of multiple instances of you are operating simultaneously and in parallel.
Douglas Rushkoff
#49. Incarnation is good news not because it offers us a way out of the mess of this world, but because it shows us what God's love looks like here and now.
Jamie Arpin-Ricci
#50. A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.
Frederick Lenz
#51. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#52. For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor
Napoleon Bonaparte
#53. Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.
Ram Dass
#54. The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.
J.I. Packer
#55. Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.
Leon Krier
#56. The God of the incarnation is more domestic than monastic.
Ronald Rolheiser
#57. He had decided to live there because the view was so beautiful, because, from his vantage point, he seemed to be looking out onto the incarnation of a divine being. But who was he to be pampered with daily and hourly sight of loveliness? Who was he to be living in the visible presence of God?
Aldous Huxley
#58. Sam Keen points out that Zen masters spend years to reach an enlightenment that every natural child already knows - the total incarnation of sleeping when you're tired and eating when you're hungry. What irony that this state of Zen-like bliss is programmatically and systematically destroyed.
John Bradshaw
#59. I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
Andrew Greeley
#60. God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles?
Frederick Lenz
#61. Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the word 'respectable,' whereas to be 'venerable,' a woman should lso be a mother.
Victor Hugo
#62. The incarnation is God's own act of identification with the broken, the poor, with sinful humanity.
Thomas C. Oden
#63. If he now failed, this world also would hereafter be redeemed. If he were not the ransom, another would be. Yet nothing was ever repeated. Not a second crucifixion; perhaps-who knows-not even a second Incarnation ... some act of even more appalling love, some glory of yet deeper humility.
C.S. Lewis
#64. The giving of the Quran is in Islam what the incarnation of Christ is to Christianity. If this is so, then Quran-burning is parallel to Christ-crucifying.
John Piper
#65. If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.
Frederick Lenz
#66. The soul is imbued with a yearning that is carried, like a torch, from incarnation to incarnation. It burns with a curiosity about life and it's true identity. Souls live, strive, and evolve, driven to seeking the truth about the world and themselves.
Stefan Emunds
#67. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
Oscar Wilde
#68. My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation.
Janet Fitch
#69. The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship keeps trying to catch up, proving that all the hatred of gay is just stupid translation, though the snake-oil preachers don't want to hear it.
Paul Monette
#70. Whatever you have learned in your previous incarnations is retained within your causal body, your multi-lifetime body of energy that lives from one incarnation to another.
Frederick Lenz
#71. Our spirit grows and develops traits in each incarnation that it passes through, and then collects and carries the essence of those traits into future lifetimes. In Buddhist Yoga we refer to our multi-life karmic traits as samskaras.
Frederick Lenz
#72. Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.
Henry Allen Ironside
#73. When God became human, He made Himself into an image. By His own incarnation, He shattered the prohibition against art.
Ian Caldwell
#74. The spirit for me is the eternal self. And when one incarnates, an aspect comes with that incarnation, that's called the soul. And together the mind, the emotional body, and the soul form the energy field that lives within this thing called the human body.
Caroline Myss
#75. What is incarnation? Incarnation is self-reflection. The universe that we are in is constructed, is a reflection of ourselves. We picked the dimension according to our self-reflection.
Frederick Lenz
#77. Management of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.
Bill McKibben
#78. Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#79. My understanding of incarnation is that we are not served by getting away from the grubbiness of suffering. Sometimes we feel that we are barely pulling ourselves forward through a tight tunnel on badly scraped-up elbows. But we do come out the other side, exhausted and changed.
Anne Lamott
#80. You can scream you're Indian, you can disavow your religion, you can even be the next incarnation of Krishna for all your Hindu countrymen will care. Their HRM will pull down your pants and check your foreskin and slaughter you just the same.
Manil Suri
#81. After a few months you stop noticing every incarnation of radicalism and violence. It is so saturated into your reality that it practically fades into the scenery.
Max Blumenthal
#82. The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#83. If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.
Sam Keen
#84. In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.
James Young
#85. The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner world incarnation in his art.
Leon Trotsky
#86. I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality.
Sydney Carter
#87. Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.
Zeena Schreck
#88. 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.
Mahatma Gandhi
#89. A soul mate is not necessarily someone with whom you set up housekeeping. Your soul and their soul have a multi-incarnation attraction.
Frederick Lenz
#90. We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways.
Harvey Weinstein
#91. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating them, till they are left living with half a heart and half a lung.
Herman Melville
#92. She grimaced, remembering one incarnation when she and he had been forced to grow old together, peacefully. Most boring life she'd ever known, though at the time - ignorant of her grander part in the Pattern - she'd been happy with it.
Robert Jordan
#93. The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
James Martineau
#94. You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different.
Frederick Lenz
#95. A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
Stanislav Grof
#96. God does not negative himself in the Incarnation, but he shows himself as that which he is, as a human being.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#97. Examine your experience of the incarnation so far and realistically add up the moments of happiness and unhappiness and you tell me, oh somewhat vaguely nobly born, you tell me, what has it been like for you?
Frederick Lenz
#98. 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. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#99. The incarnation is the Biblical bulwark against the false spiritualization of Christianity
Arnold Albert Van Ruler
#100. The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history
Alexander MacLaren
