Incarnation Quotes

“Reincarnation”

“I have come that they may have life and have it more abundantly”

“The Buddhist theory of re-incarnation is mainly rooted in the theory of Karma.”

“The will of Christ remained free after the Incarnation. This is an article of faith.”

“Wikipedia: Incarnation”

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

“The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.”

“The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.”

“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.”

“We must primarily become seekers of God instead of founders of works, for work will not sustain us through the traumas of incarnation.”

“He was made man in order that we might be made gods.[Christ] manifested himself by a body that we might receive the idea of the unseen Father; and He endured the insolence of men that we might inherit immortality.”

“Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious art' and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious'.”

“Both of them revert to their divine status, but in opposite places. When Brahma is chastising Rama for doubting Sita, he reassures Rama that Sita is an incarnation of the goddess Lakshmi and will be reunited with him in heaven.”

“The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.”

“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 the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality.”

“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 went around doing good and being compassionate.”

“A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.”

“As on many mornings in Marin, there is this sly strip of fog - water in it's most mystical incarnation - slithering over, around, and through the hills, making everything look ancient and unsolved.”

“In the Platonic anthropology, the first incarnation of the soul occurs in a masculine body, and only a subsequent incarnation, marking a later descent of the soul into the world of bodies, is feminine.”

“Sikhism teaches a doctrine of reincarnation based on the Hindu view but in addition holds that, after the Last Judgment, souls—which have been reincarnated in several existences—will be absorbed in God.”