St. Augustine: The Incarnation

“THE grace of God could not have been more graciously commended to us than thus, that the only Son of God, remaining unchangeable in Himself, should assume humanity, and should give us the hope of His love, by means of the mediation of a human nature, through which we, from the condition of men, might come to Him Who was so far off—the immortal from the mortal; the unchangeable from the changeable; the just from the unjust; the blessed from the wretched.”

~St. Augustine: The City of God, 11, 2.

 Incarnation of Jesus, by Piero di Cosimo.
Wood panel, c. 1505; Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.