Anne Lamott Quotes

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

Only by being both deity and humanity could Jesus Christ bridge the gap between where God is.

Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.

Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God.

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right? It's not correct to say that - Jesus is the union of the human and the divine. That's different.

Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

A person who claims that … Jesus is the son of God cannot be described as a believer in God. The same applies to a person who says that the Christ is the Lord, or that God is one of a Trinity, or that He manifested Himself in Jesus.

The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.

Christ is God clothed with human nature.

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that this entailed. Even though we have always been present in this created universe, we now became flesh and blood. It would be like this bird (a jay), whose nature it is to fly, choosing to only walk and remain grounded. He doesn't stop being a bird, but it does alter his experience of life significantly.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.

The church had to find a way to protect Jesus' perfection so that he could do the work of salvation which, in their frame of reference, only God could do, because God had to come into this world from outside this world to rescue the fallen creation.

The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become truly afraid. These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ....No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian theology finds its beginnings in the miracle of miracles, that God became human.

Christ, by highest heaven adored. Christ, the everlasting Lord, Late in time behold Him come, Offspring of a virgin's womb. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail the incarnate Deity! Pleased as Man with man to dwell; Jesus, our Immanuel!

Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.