Incarnation Quotes - Page 3

• I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Novelists, Krishna

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.117, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Death, Soul, Alive

  "Lessons About Life, Love, Hate and Human Experience". Book by Ifeanyi Egerue, Chebem Felix (p. 54), May 2008.

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• I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums... All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me... Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.

  Jack London

  Echoes, Self, Voice

  "Return Again: How to Find Meaning in Your Past Lives and Your Interlives" by Georgina Cannon, (p. 17), 2012.

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• The virtuous shall have the power to revive and live again. All pure and holy spirits live on in heavenly places, and in course of time they are again sent down to inhabit righteous bodies

  Josephus

  Body, Spirit, Holy

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

  William Wordsworth

  Sleep, Afterlife, Infancy Is

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

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• The theory of Reincarnation, which originated in India, has been welcomed in other countries. Without doubt, it is one of the most sensible and satisfying of all religions that mankind has conceived. This, like the others, comes from the best qualities of human nature, even if in this, as in the others, its adherents sometimes fail to carry out the principles in their lives.

  Luther Burbank

  Country, Doubt, Quality

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• As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Death, Dark, Law

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• He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.

  Hermann Hesse

  Time, Faces, Saws

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.112, Om Books International

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• Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Europe, Answers

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• I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.

  Socrates

  Spring, Soul, Reincarnation

  "Phaedo". Book by Plato,

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• Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Mean, Reality, Europe

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• It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Sight, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.272, Harvard University Press

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• Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Clothes, Coats, Flesh

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.211, Princeton University Press

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• For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands... and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• In an age of information overload ... the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the practice of incarnation, by which God saves the lives of those whose intellectual assent has turned them dry as dust, who have run frighteningly low on the Bread of Life, who are dying to know more God in their bodies. Not more about God. More God.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Running, Practice, Bread Of Life

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• The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hints, Half, Quartets

  1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.

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• Before it incarnates, each soul enters into a sacred contract with the Universe to accomplish certain things. It enters into this commitment in the fullness of its being. Whatever the task that your soul has agreed to, all of the experiences of your life serve to awaken within you the memory of that contract, and to prepare you to fulfill it.

  Gary Zukav

  Memories, Commitment, Soul

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Dec 31, 2014

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• If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative but to conceive of this Incarnation as something which is still present and which will remain present for all future time. ... What happens in the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist is something for which all religions of mankind have exressed longing, dimly sensed was coming, and as a rule even prefigured- the physical presence of the divine Logos made man, and the presence of his sacrificial death, in the midst of the congregation celebrating the mysteries.

  Josef Pieper

  Men, Justice, Logos

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• As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf or a piece of paper, so the mystery of Christ in the Gospel concentrates the rays of God's light and fire to a point that sets fire to the spirit of man. ... Through the glass of His Incarnation He concentrates the rays of His Divine Truth and Love upon us so that we feel the burn, and all mystical experience is communicated to men through the Man Christ.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Men, Fire

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.150, New Directions Publishing

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• The incarnation began with Jesus and it has never stopped . . . God takes on flesh so that every home becomes a church, every child becomes the Christ-child, and all food and drink become a sacrament. God's many faces are now everywhere, in flesh, tempered and turned down, so that our human eyes can see him.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  God, Christian, Jesus

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• For 2,000 years, the Church has been the cradle in which Mary places Jesus and entrusts Him to the adoration and contemplation of all peoples. May the humility of the Bride cause to shine forth still more brightly the glory and power of the Eucharist, which she celebrates and treasures in her heart. In the sign of the consecrated Bread and Wine, Christ Jesus risen and glorified, the light of the nations, reveals the enduring reality of His Incarnation. He remains living and real in our midst in order to nourish the faithful with His Body and Blood.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Real, Heart

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• We impose our modern worldview on the Bible to make it conform to our intellectual happy place. But we deceive ourselves into thinking this works or is legitimate. We fail to realize that the supernatural things we want to avoid are no more supernatural (or "weird") than the things that define the Christian faith. What's so "normal" about the virgin birth, the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the bodily resurrection of Christ, the hypostatic union of the incarnation (Jesus was 100% God and 100% man)?

  Michael S. Heiser

  Christian, Jesus, Men

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• 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

  Self, Principles, World

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.55

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• There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Sacred, Messages, Secular

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.45, Convergent Books

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• Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Giving, Body

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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