The All-Knowing saw that we worshiped creatures.
He put on a created body to catch us by our habit, to draw us by a created body toward the Creator.
Blessed is He Who contrived to draw us to Him. The evil one knew how to harm us; with luminaries he blinded us. With possessions he maimed us, by gold he made us poor. With graven images he made us a heart of stone.
Blessed is He who came to soften it.
St. Ephrem of Syria
