Dead men cannot take effective action; their power of influence on others lasts only till the grave. Deeds and actions that energise others belong only to the living. Well, then, look at the facts in this case. The Saviour is working mightily among men, every day He is invisibly persuading numbers of people all over the world, both within and beyond the Greek-speaking world, to accept His faith and be obedient to His teaching. Can anyone, in face of this, still doubt that He has risen and lives, or rather that He is Himself the Life? Does a dead man prick the consciences of men...?
Athanasius of AlexandriaTags: life death faith conscience jesus incarnation resurrection
The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wanted to make a display the thing would have been just to appear and dazzle the beholders. But for Him Who came to heal and to teach the way was not merely to dwell here, but to put Himself at the disposal of those who needed Him, and to be manifested according as they could bear it, not vitiating the value of the Divine appearing by exceeding their capacity to receive it.
Athanasius of AlexandriaTags: jesus incarnation
For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.
Athanasius of AlexandriaTags: jesus creation incarnation
Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.
Hans Urs von BalthasarTags: christianity god jesus catholicism jesus-christ christ mary incarnation virgin-mary son-of-god blessed-virgin-mary most-high
Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.
Hans Urs von BalthasarTags: christianity god grace jesus catholicism jesus-christ christ mary incarnation virgin-mary blessed-virgin-mary eternal-child god-the-father
Prayer is a moment of incarnation - God with us. God involved in the details of my life.
Paul E. MillerTags: prayer incarnation
If Christianity was only about finding a group of people to live life with who shared openly their search for God and allowed anyone regardless of behavior to seek too and who collectively lived by faith to make the world a little more like Heaven would you be interested ’ ‘Hell yes ’ was his reply. He continued ‘Are there churches like that
Hugh Halter & Matt SmayTags: church jesus-christ incarnation missional incarnational
We must primarily become seekers of God instead of founders of works, for work will not sustain us through the traumas of incarnation.
Viv GriggTags: work incarnation seeker
This Lord of natures today was transformed contrary to His nature;
it is not too difficult for us to also overthrow our evil will." Hymns of the Nativity, Hymn 1:97, pg. 74 in Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns (New York: Paulist Press, 1989).
Tags: paradox nature will incarnation nativity
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: death body catholicism incarnation resurrection
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