Incarnation Quotes
206 quotes by 142 authors
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He…
— Karen Armstrong
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The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during…
— Annie Besant
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I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.
— Roberto Cavalli
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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…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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…
— Swami Vivekananda
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It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this…
— Jack Kornfield
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body…
— Steven Pressfield
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Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
— Albert Einstein
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People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast…
— Saint Augustine
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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…
— Thomas Merton
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Only an empowered personality can distribute the holy name of the Lord and enjoin all fallen souls to worship Krishna. By distributing the holy name…
— Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
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The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man;…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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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.…
— Pope John Paul II
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All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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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…
— Catherine Doherty
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We've got to be long distance runners on the spiritual path. We want to run as fast as we can, but at the same time…
— Goswami Kriyananda
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