Quotes About Rebirth

Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.

Live as if you were living already for the second time.

Alexandria and its scholars […] never mistook the true nature of the past; they knew it to be the source of an ever-shifting present in which new readers engaged with old books which became new in the reading process. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

To rush headlong into the comforting darkness of selfhood as a reborn human being, or even as beast, an unhappy ghost, a denizen of hell. Anything rather than the burning brightness of unmitigated Reality.

The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

The anxious wait lasted four years, and the alert ears never despaired of hearing, at any moment, the voice of the great conch shell which would bellow through the hills to announce to all that Macandal had completed the cycle of his metamorphoses, and stood poised once more, sinewy and hard, with testicles like rocks, on his own human legs (36-37).

Tu eri morto – disse – e non c'era più niente di bello, al mondo.

but of course any time we become something other than ourselves, it is just death by another name.

Thus when someone is born again, the Holy Spirit gives that person new Fatherward desires, a new heavenward orientation whereby we cry, "Abba, Father!" In other words, all those indwelled by the Holy Spirit really want to pray. The Holy Spirit causes all the children of God to believe that God is their Father and fills them with an undying desire to talk to him.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Without the new birth, all the doctrinal and liturgical work in the world is just the reorganization of dead materials, instead of what it is described in the Bible as being, which is the organization and discipleship of living materials.

Christ is begotten from the dead and so all the nations of men belong to him.

Hasta que no cambies tu vida y te vuelvas como un niño no podrás entrar al reino del cielo". Jesús.

I was so struck by the magnificent beauty of the sunset, I sat there, quiet. The silence allowed me to ask myself: What if I did get the chance at life all over again? What would I do differently? What would I keep and what would I leave??? My older self was welcoming my younger self into an early womanhood.

People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

Conversion does not mean a change of outward appearance; rather it requires a change of mind and results in a transformed life.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.