Incarnation Quotes - Page 2

• It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

  Voltaire

  Birthday, Resurrection, Rebirth

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• The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

  Edith Sitwell

  Dresses, Attention, Want

  "Edith Sitwell: Fire of the Mind : an Anthology" by Elizabeth Salter, (p. 176), 1976.

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• Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Justice, Enemy, Saint

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• 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

  Mind, Groups, Individual

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• Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.

  Arthur Middleton

  Church, Christ, Form

  "Talking with Christians: Musings of a Jewish Theologian". Book by David Novak, p. 236, January 28, 2006.

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• Each man in his life honors, and imitates as well as he can, that god to whose choir he belonged, while he is uncorrupted in his first incarnation here; and in the fashion he has thus learned, he bears himself to his beloved as well as to the rest. So, then, each chooses from among the beautiful a love conforming to his kind, and then, as if his chosen were his god, he sets him up and robes him for worship.

  Mary Renault

  Beautiful, Fashion, Men

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• 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

  Jesus, Self, Depth

  Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]”, p.300, Aeterna Press

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• 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

  Christian, Ideas, Doctrine

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• When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any greater, for it was already infinite. We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No--Jesus died because God is showing mercy. It was the mercy of God that gave us Calvary, not Calvary that gave us mercy. If God had not been merciful there would have been no incarnation, no babe in the manger, no man on a cross and no open tomb.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Men, Mercy Of God

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• Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

  Peter Kreeft

  Reason, Crucifixion

  Peter Kreeft (2001). “Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church”

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• The Lord, before His Incarnation, let mankind experience all the bitterness of sin, all their powerlessness to eradicate it; and when all longed for a Deliverer, then He appeared, the most wise, all-powerful Physician and Helper. When men hungered and thirsted after righteousness, as it grew weaker, then the everlasting righteousness came.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Wise, Powerful

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• Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Flower, Lips, Great Gatsby Love

  The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

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• The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.

  Joseph Campbell

  Winter, Night, Years

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.33, Princeton University Press

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• The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another.

  Julius Caesar

  Warrior, Fearless, Soul

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• Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Believe, World, Shapes

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.165

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• I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.

  Walt Whitman

  Laughing, Doubt, Reincarnation

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Sleep, Afterlife

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• ... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to become children of God instead of children of flesh and blood if we have faith in His Name (cf. Jn. 1:12-13). For the Savior the sequence was, first of all, incarnation and bodily birth for my sake; and so thereupon the birth in the Spirit through baptism, originally spurned by Adam, for the sake of my salvation and restoration by grace, or, to describe it even more vividly, my very remaking.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Children

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• 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prime

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• The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sight, Funeral

  "In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Love Story That Opens Doors to Spiritual Values". Book by Gerald O. Doyle (p. 56), 2002.

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• As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dream, Real, Lasts

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• The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Body, Reincarnation

  "In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Love Story That Opens Doors to Spiritual Values". Book by Gerald O. Doyle (p. 56), 2002.

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• 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

  Teacher, Jesus, Father

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 01, 2013.

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• The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Soul, Alive, Body

  "Lessons About Life, Love, Hate and Human Experience". Book by Ifeanyi Egeru, p. 54, 2008.

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• Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Desire, Reincarnation, Cases

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1915). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

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