{"quotes":[{"text":"Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out.","author":"Max Lucado","tags":["christmas","incarnation"],"id":4439,"author_id":"Max+Lucado"},{"text":"When spirituality becomes spiritualization, life in the body becomes carnality. When ministers and priests live their ministry mostly in their heads and relate to the Gospel as a set of valuable ideas to be announced, the body quickly takes revenge by screaming loudly for affection and intimacy. Christian leaders are called to live the Incarnation, that is, to live in the body, not only in their own bodies but also in the corporate body of the community, and to discover there the presence of the Holy Spirit.","author":"Henri J.M. Nouwen","tags":["clergy","holy-spirit","incarnation","practicing-faith"],"id":9373,"author_id":"Henri+J.M.+Nouwen"},{"text":"For the Word, realizing that in no other way would the corruption of human beings be undone except, simply, by dying, yet being immortal and the Son of the Father of the Word was not able to die, for this reason he takes to himself a body capable of death, in order that it, participating in the Word who is above all, might be sufficient for death on behalf of all, and through the indwelling Word would remain incorruptible, and so corruption might henceforth cease from all by the grace of the resurrection.","author":"Athanasius of Alexandria","tags":["christianity","incarnation","jesus","resurrection"],"id":11893,"author_id":"Athanasius+of+Alexandria"},{"text":"For a Christian to return to a Jewish territoriality is to deny fundamentally what has transpired in the incarnation. It is to deflect appropriate devotion to the new place where God has appeared in residence, namely, in his Son. This explains why the New Testament applies to the person of Christ religious language formerly devoted to the Holy Land or the Temple. He is the new spatiality, the new locale where God may be met.","author":"Gary M. Burge","tags":["gary-burge","holy-land","incarnation","jesus","land","place","prophecy-and-fulfillment","space"],"id":12875,"author_id":"Gary+M.+Burge"},{"text":"You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.","author":"Marcus Aurelius","tags":["corpse","incarnation","mind-over-body","soul"],"id":21235,"author_id":"Marcus+Aurelius"},{"text":"In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.","author":"Virchand Gandhi","tags":["art-of-life","art-of-living","desire","famous","human","incarnation","indian","inspirational","motivational","peace","popular","salvation","soul","spiritual","virchand-gandhi"],"id":28885,"author_id":"Virchand+Gandhi"},{"text":"The Incarnation of Christ raised the energy of everything. And when Hopkins placed his conviction of this into poetry, he tended to mention electricity, lightening, fire, flash, flame. He wrote in his late, great poem, 'That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and the comfort of the Resurrection': 'In a flash, at a trumpet crash, / I am all at once what Christ is, / since he was what I am and / This jack, joke, poor potsherd, / patch matchwood, immortal diamond, / Is immortal diamond.","author":"Margaret R. Ellsberg","tags":["gerard-manley-hopkins","incarnation","poetry","prophetic-imagination","theology"],"id":28944,"author_id":"Margaret+R.+Ellsberg"},{"text":"Humility was an offensive characteristic for a God, in the eyes of early non-Christians. How could Christians worship a God who deliberately chose to share in human birth with all its mess and vulnerability and limitation, as well as a shameful death? How can we now worship a God to whom all the unimportant little details of our lives actually matter? How can we respect a God who takes us more seriously than we take ourselves, and yet is not impressed with all our accomplishments? Who loves us equally well, whetherwe succeed or fail? How could it really be that God simply disregards not only our education, our tastes, our industry, our niceness, our worthiness in order to love us? God's greatness we can begin to approach. The sheer humility of God's love is incomprehensible.","author":"Roberta C. Bondi","tags":["god-s-love","god-s-nature","humility","incarnation"],"id":31337,"author_id":"Roberta+C.+Bondi"},{"text":"Christ is, then, the perfect art work in the sense of that reality in whom is realised those goals that all artistic making has as its explicit or implicit ends. Because he is infinite meaning, life and being perfectly synthesised with finite form, the cave painters at Lascaux, or Hesiod penning his hymns, or Beethoven working on his last quartets, were all gesturing towards him though they realised it not.","author":"Aidan Nichols O.P.","tags":["art","beauty","christ","incarnation","theology-of-art"],"id":38810,"author_id":"Aidan+Nichols+O.P."},{"text":"...Because you have been purifying your fields for many incarnations so you no longer belong in the heavy density of the third dimension and you find it difficult to tolerate. But you have one last mission here and you are on the verge of knowing…follow your heart and your instincts.","author":"Ana Rangel \u0026 Gerry O'malley","tags":["heart","incarnation","instinct","life","spirituality"],"id":42310,"author_id":"Ana+Rangel+%26+Gerry+O%27malley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":61,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}