Choices Quote by Maximus the Confessor

In the person of Christ a man has not become God; God has become man.

— Cyril of Jerusalem

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

— Athanasius

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“God's Incarnation opens the way to man's deification. To be deified is, more specifically, to be “christified”: the divine likeness that we are called…

— Kallistos Ware

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“The Word bestows adoption on us when he grants us that birth and deification which, transcending nature, come by grace from above through the…

— Andrew Louth

God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind…

— C. S. Lewis

Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the…

— Elias Hicks

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become the sons of God.

— CS Lewis

Wherefore, as I have said to you, I, God, have become man, and man has become God by the union of My Divine Nature…

— St. Catherine of Siena

We are His children in Very deed, having been born of Him in the spirit, and we have inherited the very attributes which he…

— George F. Richards

“By his gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging his condition for ours revealed…

— Anonymous