Quotes on the Incarnation
When Jesus came to earth he did not cease to be God; when he returned to heaven he did not cease to be man. (John Blanchard)
Jesus Christ is God in the form of man; as completely God as if he were not man; as completely man as if he were not God. (A.J.F. Behrends)
Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. (Phillips Brooks)
Christ uncrowned himself to crown us, and put off his robes to put on our rags, and came down from heaven to keep us out of hell. He fasted forty days that he might feast us to all eternity; he came from heaven to earth that he might send us from earth to heaven. (W. Dyer)
In Christ Jesus heaven comes down to earth and earth ascends to heaven.
Jesus is God spelling himself out in a language that we can understand. (S.D. Gordon)
If Christ is only man, then I am an idoloter. If he is very God, then the man who denies it is a blasphemer. There can be no union between those who hold his deity and those who deny it. (G. Campbell Morgan)
Infinite, and yet an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother’s arms. King of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph. Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter’s despised son. (Spurgeon)
‘I do not think of Christ as God alone, or man alone, but both together. For I know that he was hungry, and I know that with five loaves he fed five thousand. I know that he was thirsty, and I know that he turned water into wine. I know that he was carried in a ship, and I know he walked upon the sea. I know that he died, and I know that he raised the dead. I know he was set before Pilate, and I know that he sits with the Father in his throne. I know that he was worshipped by the angels, and I know that he was stoned by the Jews’ (Chrysostom).
‘The Word of God, Jesus Christ, out of his boundless love, became what we are, that he might make us what he is.’ (Irenaeus)
God raised up Jesus, not simply to give credence to man’s immemorial hopes of life beyond the grave, but to shatter history and remake it by a cosmic, creative event, ushering in a new age and a new dimension of existence. (J. S. Stewart)