Quotes About Rebirth

But in the actual experience of contemplation all other experiences are momentarily lost. They "die" to be born again on a higher level of life.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Everything that happened in life-whether for good or bad, joyous or tragic reasons-held the potential to sanctify and bring one closer to the Lord. Even, Abby realized, the personal pain and horror of loss. In life's catastrophic upheavals, in the self-fragmentation, confusion, and spirit-shattering grief, there was always the hope of rebirth to a new and even better life-a life not of this world but of the Spirit.

God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. —Rumi (Jalal ad-Din)

Let me love you, Ysolde. Let this happen. Since I was reborn, I have lived every moment in despair because I lost you. Let me worship you now as I've longed to do all those years." Baltic, Love In The Time of Dragons

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

All he would say was that sometimes you have to burn it down and start over.

This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get a new one: that sometimes you need to let go of everything you're clinging to and start over, whether because you've outgrown it or because it's not working anymore, or because it was wrong for you in the first place.

When I'm reborn I'll be born, the next time, so I won't suffer only for myself like this.

Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3).

You see, a Christian is not renovated like an old mattress. An old mattress is just made over. But the New Birth is not a reformation or a renovation. A born-again Christian is a brand-new creature; a new creation. One translation of Second Corinthians 5:17 reads, "He is a new species." This new creature is simply something that never existed before!

Well, if he had ever read the Bible, he should know a sinner does not get healed spiritually. The human spirit of the lost man or woman is not healed—it's reborn. That person becomes a new creature in Christ Jesus. Old things are passed away. All things become new.

Love slays what we have been, That we may be what we were not.

Love slays what we have been, That we may be what we were not. from "The Dragon and the Unicorn

The history of art is the history of revivals.

I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we're actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we're suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!

Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.

Tibetan Book of the Dead

How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

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If the libido is not permitted to follow the progressive life, which is willing to accept all dangers and all losses, then it follows the other road, sinking into its own depths, working down into the old foreboding regarding the immortality of all life, to the longing for rebirth.

For thousands of years, rites of initiation have been teaching spiritual rebirth; yet, strangely enough, man forgets again and again the meaning of divine procreation.