Quotes About Rebirth

The 2011 Cubs were the oldest team in the division, the most expensive team in the division, and the worst team in the division. And we really needed to start over.

The Renaissance took place in chaos and plague.

I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?' And I'm thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We're the definition of 'back.' We're the definition of 'rebirth,' of 'renaissance.'

He needed so much to weep. All the distrust of life which misfortunes had brought to the little Värmland boy needed tears to wash it away. Distrust that love and joy, beauty and strength blossomed on the earth, distrust in himself, all must go, all did go, for it was Easter; the dead lived and the Spirit of Fasting would never again come into power.

You are my Easter.

You guys are all into that born again thing, which is great. We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be born again to enter the kingdom of God, I can tell you that you have to sell everything you have and give it to the poor, because Jesus said that to one guy too…[And he paused in the awkward silence.] But I guess that's why God invented highlighters, so we can highlight the parts we like and ignore the rest.

Springtime is my favorite. Winter is so cold and miserable but if we just keep going, if we just keep waiting, the world comes back to life. Every year. Every time. The bad times have to end and beauty always wins.

Hope had been that thing with burnt feathers buried in her soul, but now it was waking up, stretching, beating fresh wings in the ashes.

Life feels like fall of itself." "'A dream within a dream." "And I want to wake up.

That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new.

Ashes don't necessarily signify an end.

in a sky whose darkness is fading, that first dream, from which I am now waking.

I called for him through solid earth until he woke, and left.

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

Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.

Israel, as a nation, is a type of the church. But this is the case, not because the church is merely the replacement of Israel, but because Christ, as the true seed of Abraham and the fulfillment of Israel, unites in himself both spiritual Jews and Gentiles as the "Israel of God" (Gal 6:16). There is continuity, but also important discontinuity. Now that Christ has come, only those who have faith and have experienced spiritual rebirth are his people and part of his family.

Gee. What's that puddle at Nik's feet? Why, that's Angie Santiago. She used to be an ice princess now she's just a sopping mess.

The world of the dead won?t give you up a second time.

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

Do not say, 'It is morning, ' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THIS WILL BE AGAIN.

How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.

When leaves begin to sprout, we know spring season is here.

Twenty minutes seemed like an eternity, and like no time at all.