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The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly. -- James Martineau
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention. -- Edith Sitwell
In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation. -- James Young
The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
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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. -- Arthur Middleton
The giving of the Quran is in Islam what the incarnation of Christ is to Christianity. If this is so, then Quran-burning is parallel to Christ-crucifying. -- John Piper
I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality. -- Sydney Carter
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. -- Stanislav Grof
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. -- Karen Armstrong
I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century. -- Andrew Greeley
Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. -- Lucinda Franks
I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being. -- Pope Francis
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would not think twice about being part of any incarnation of the 'X-Men' films. -- James Marsden
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. -- Jorge Luis Borges
The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man. -- C. S. Lewis
Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was a big Mickey Rourke fan in his first incarnation. I thought that at the time he was America's greatest screen actor. -- Jamie Sives
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. -- Arthur Middleton
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. -- Peter Abelard
As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods. -- Joseph Goebbels
I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am. -- Ram Dass
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 -- C. S. Lewis
Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture. -- Stephen Kinzer
My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation. -- Janet Fitch
It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently celebrated your incarnation, you deserve to celebrate your existence. -- David Simon
The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments. -- Arthur Middleton
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. -- Vissarion Belinsky
So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to current times, where you have Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Kristen Wiig. -- Chelsea Peretti
It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation. -- J. I. Packer
I've been a huge fan of virtually every incarnation and spin-off of the 'Star Trek' franchise (don't get me started on 'Voyager,' though), but there's something about the purity of the original series that really appeals to me. -- Chris Roberson
Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations. -- Ram Dass
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
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. -- Annie Besant
Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's your Facebook profile, there's your email inbox. And all of these sort of multiple instances of you are operating simultaneously and in parallel. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Human perception is literally incarnation. -- Marshall McLuhan
Mozart is the incarnation of music. -- Joseph Haydn
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. -- Vissarion Belinsky
Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human -- Paul Tillich
The God of the incarnation is more domestic than monastic. -- Ronald Rolheiser
Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dying is the most important moment that exists in any incarnation -- Ram Dass
The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible. -- Simone Weil
Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God. -- Laurence Olivier
I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation. -- David Blunkett
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world. -- Jeffrey Smart
Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us. -- Ram Dass
If there was such a thing as re-incarnation, Floyd would come back as himself -- Ricky Hatton
God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles? -- Frederick Lenz
Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are. -- Aleister Crowley
God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles? -- Frederick Lenz
The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross. -- Hudson Taylor
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible. -- C. S. Lewis
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. -- Albert Einstein
As an incarnation of love you put up with flack until it becomes detrimental to a person. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world. -- Tzvetan Todorov
There is only one all-pervading God. It has no religion, no incarnation. It is free from all contaminations. -- Amit Ray
Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop. -- Leon Krier
Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil. -- Jon Snow
As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits. -- Frederick Lenz
As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits. -- Frederick Lenz
Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains. -- J. I. Packer
What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself -- R. C. Sproul
The universe is complicated and we're not going to get it all in one night or one incarnation or one infinity. -- Frederick Lenz
A soul mate is not necessarily someone with whom you set up housekeeping. Your soul and their soul have a multi-incarnation attraction. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.). -- Tim Crane
Many people see Eva Peron as either a saint or the incarnation of Satan. That means I definitely can identify with her. -- Madonna Ciccone
Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence. -- Neville Cardus
Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food. -- Jami Attenberg
Napoleon once said that justice is the incarnation of God on Earth. I'm telling you: the reunification of Crimea and Russia is just. -- Vladimir Putin
For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar. -- Wendell Berry
A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available. -- Terence McKenna
You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power, that perfect unity. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Whatever you have learned in your previous incarnations is retained within your causal body, your multi-lifetime body of energy that lives from one incarnation to another. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world. -- Earl Paulk
I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul. -- Ram Dass
What is incarnation? Incarnation is self-reflection. The universe that we are in is constructed, is a reflection of ourselves. We picked the dimension according to our self-reflection. -- Frederick Lenz
He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep. -- Hector Hugh Munro
What is incarnation? Incarnation is self-reflection. The universe that we are in is constructed, is a reflection of ourselves. We picked the dimension according to our self-reflection. -- Frederick Lenz
After a few months you stop noticing every incarnation of radicalism and violence. It is so saturated into your reality that it practically fades into the scenery. -- Max Blumenthal
You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional. -- Ram Dass
If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous. -- Herrick Johnson
The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My son, be rich and live your own life! Tell yourself that you're the incarnation of an ancient aristocracy. Model yourself on the feudal barons. You're a warrior" -- Colette
Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race. -- Zeena Schreck
When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes. -- George Steiner
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled. -- T. S. Eliot
Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products. -- Sarah-Patton Boyle
I stole a lot from Gary Oldman. I stole the hairdo from his incarnation of Dracula. We cheated it just enough, so we couldn't get accused of copyright infringement. -- Justin Theroux
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. -- Oscar Wilde
Enlightenment does not put an end to awareness. It puts an end to limited awareness. It doesn't necessarily put an end to incarnation. It puts an end to reincarnation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times. -- Ram Dass
By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The experience of the next life is too far away to really be concerned with. It will be an outgrowth of this incarnation and what happens between birth and death. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event. -- Joyelle McSweeney
People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change. -- Joseph Campbell
Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the word 'respectable,' whereas to be 'venerable,' a woman should lso be a mother. -- Victor Hugo
You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If you feel some tremendous pressure to do everything perfectly so you won't have a horrible incarnation in your next life - that type of fear is unnecessary. Life is not that finicky. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey. -- Steven Pressfield
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. -- Jaimal Yogis
If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
What you gain in internal knowledge goes from one lifetime to another. It is not wasted. Unlike those stone edifices that will fade, your internal knowledge will stay with you from one incarnation to another. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge - they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. -- Vissarion Belinsky
You live on Earth only for a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit. -- Chief White Eagle
The causal body is the part of a person that lives forever. It is what you would call the soul. It doesn't dissolve along with the physical and astral bodies at the end of an incarnation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another. -- Marianne Williamson
The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it. -- Alan Watts

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