The incarnation is “a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the end…

Frederick Buechner
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The incarnation is “a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken. ✨ Frederick Buechner, Lee Boltin (1974). The life of Jesus, Gramercy
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