Quotes About Rebirth

ALIVE! Still alive. Alive … again. Awakening was hard, as always. The ultimate disappointment. It was a struggle to take in enough air to drive off nightmare sensations of asphyxiation. Lilith Iyapo lay gasping, shaking with the force of her effort.

Dalle sue ceneri una fenice prima deve bruciare.

O, to be stung by an errant bee. O, to sting. O, to see you again. Covered in spring.

To wcale nie jest proste. Nie wystarczy zwyk?e sprz?tanie. Resztki zostawionej tu osobowo?ci poprzedniego go?cia trzeba zwalczy? swoj? bezosobowo?ci?. Po to jest Przemiana. Resztki odbi? tamtej twarzy w lustrze nie tylko musz? zetrze? szmatk?, ale tak?e zape?ni? lustro moj? bia?o-ró?ow? beztwarzowo?ci?. Tamten zapach zostawiony przez roztargnienie i po?piech musz? zag?uszy? moim bezzapachem.

I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.

God killed me, and only after He had made me into someone entirely different from the person I had been, did he call me back to life.

It wasn't an ordinary sickness. God had killed me, and only after He had made me into someone entirely different from the person I had been, did he call me back to life.

Oh yes!...The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, a rebirth, a new life. But, just the same I'm in no rush to find out.

I cannot enter the realm of the kingdom of God unless I am born again from above by a birth totally unlike physical birth. "You must be born again" (John 3:7).

My spiritual history must have as its underlying foundation a personal knowledge of Jesus Christ. To be born again means that I see Jesus.

Being born again from above is an enduring, perpetual, and eternal beginning. It provides a freshness all the time in thinking, talking, and living—a continual surprise of the life of God. Staleness is an indication that something in our lives is out of step with God.

Being born again by the Spirit of God means that we must first be willing to let go before we can grasp something else.

Being born of the Spirit means much more than we usually think. It gives us new vision and keeps us absolutely fresh for everything through the never-ending supply of the life of God.

I remember coming to in white room, with white walls, and people all around me covered in white sheets and thinking, F**k, I'm in the morgue. Then I heard a hissing noise next to my bed. Pssst, pssst. I looked down and there was this kid holding up a pen and a copy of "Bark at the Moon" . 'Will you sign this for me?' he asked. 'F**k off,' I told him. 'I'm dead.'

My self-confidence, love of wisdom, and desire to change the world were rooted in that brief period, when I climbed out of despair to rebirth.

Chaska looked like he was fighting not to laugh. "Well, it sounds like you've tried everything." "I respect the snake's energy. I really do. They're a symbol of the Goddess, a symbol of rebirth, but most of my customers aren't as evolved as I am. It scares them. I don't want to call an exterminator, but it's hurting my bottom line.

Death is the midwife of very great things.... It brings about the birth and rebirth of forms a thousand times improved. This is the highest mystery of God.

Out of death, life; an immutable truth

Maybe she is right. Maybe the old self has to die for the new self to be born. Or maybe, for me, the old self doesn't have to die. Maybe who I have been is not erasable on the tablet of who I am, or in the book of who I will become. Maybe writing, like painting, can be pentimento—one layer over another, the early layers now and then showing through.

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.

I'd like to get rid of all of them. Filthy hovels, filthy people. I would tear down the houses and let sheep roam among the rocks.

Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." John 3:3

Isn't dying once enough? he thinks. Am I going to have to keep doing it? But then he thinks, No. Because you can die before you're dead, too.