Quotes About Rebirth

Jesus wrecked my life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together more beautifully.

Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.

Our wedding night, she whispered, and dreams were reborn as she rested her face against his neckcloth.

Estuve muerto durante diez años, mi amor, y me has devuelto la vida en sólo un año.

At times, the solution to a maze is to reduce it to embers ans walk straight through the ashes. ? Mary Doria Russell, Children of God

The image pleases me enough : to slip from the body's tight container and into some luminous womb, gliding there without effort till the distant shapes glow brighter and more familiar, till all your beloveds hover before you, their lit arms held out in welcome.

to be absent from the world and alive, again, in another...

Imagine lifting the lid from a jar and finding it filled not with darkness but with light.

I went to China, I went to Prague; I died, and was born in the spring; I found you, and loved you, again.

I lie like land used up, while spring unfolds.

Don-Keun was a new man. The moment they arrived, he vanished for a second. We heard muffled ecstatic screaming coming from somewhere in the back of the Waffle House kitchen, then he reappeared, his face shining with the kind of radiance usually associated with religious epiphany.

I thought I could start over, you see. But now I know you can never start over. Not really. You think you have control, but you are like a fly in somebody else's web.

I think it's great to have a new life every 10 years or so.

Il faut naître tous les matins, comme l'enfant qui dit C'est beau ça.

Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You've been torn asunder, invested with an ancient, incomprehensible magic. It's the one thing that we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

They count that as your birthday -- the day your mother gets up. Not the day you were born? Not the day you came out. They count the mother getting better as all part of the birth.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all, he declared to the sky, squinting up at God and demanding justice. I held him in my arms at night and saw parts of his soul turn to ash. Then I saw him reborn, with a stone in place of his heart. Nathan would accept no more compromises.

This is dying - I know because I've done it before.

Birth is nothing but death begun

The body takes about seven years to replace all its cells. As we age original factory parts get harder to come by. We accept seconds and rebuilds. Some are even transplanted with recycled parts. We get less miles to the gallon, and eventually, after several towings, we must abandon the body by the side of the road. From there we must go the rest of the way alone with just our heart for guidance.

I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love.

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

The one who is truly born again will love the Word of God.