St. Justin Popovich: Man in the God-Man

 Everything that man is and everything that is of man perfectly lives, works, thinks, feels, is human, immortal, divine, and eternal only and solely in the God-man and through the God - man. Only through the God-man Christ is man a divine majesty and the highest value next to God in all worlds. For this reason God became man, and has remained the God-1nan for all eternity. With the God-man Christ, all that is God’s has become 1nan’s, human, ours, so that each of us individually and all of us assembled

together in the Divine-human body of Christ, the Church, might become god-men, having attained “to the perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” (Eph. 4:12-13).

+St. Justin Popovich, in Man and the God-Man

St. Ephraim the Syrian: A new miracle in man

 God performed a new miracle in man, great for us and for all creation. For He made our body a temple, and filled it with that which is venerated by all.

Come, O earthly and heavenly beings, wonder and be amazed at this great bestowal of dignity, for our race has been lifted to the immeasurable height of the Divinity.

+St. Ephraim the Syrian, quoted by St. Theophan the Recluse in A Spiritual Psalter: or Reflections on God, psalm 44.