Quotes About Conception

To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'

No human being...is ever conceived outside God's will or ever conceived apart from God's image. Life is a gift from God created in His own image.

Nothing happens or comes to be without being thought first:

Todas las mujeres conciben ideas, pero no todas conciben hijos

The subjects had, indeed, risen vividly on my mind. As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I attempted to embody them, they were striking; but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived.

Goodness exists independently of our conception of it. The good is out there and it always has been out there, even before we began to exist.

The men who rush into undertakings of vast change usually feel they are in possession of some irresistible power. The generation that made the French Revolution had an extravagant conception of the omnipotence of man's reason and the boundless range of his intelligence.

I was heavily involved on all fronts: with mountaineering outfitters, who oddly enough never fathomed the depths of my ignorance; possibly because they couldn't conceive of anyone acquiring such a collection of equipment without knowing how to use it…

was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth. Your eyes beheld my unformed substance; in your book were written, everyone of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. (PSALM 139: 13-16)

When the Bible mentions righteous couples suffering from infertility, a conception is not far behind.

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.

Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated.

The fact is, in Mike Huckabee's case, he can say, 'I was a preacher, I'm a Christian, and so I believe that life begins at conception, ends at natural death.'

Becoming pregnant can be difficult at the best of times.

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.

I worried because I'd been on the pill for so long and the doctor said to me, 'If you want to have three or four children the chances are you probably won't get pregnant for another year so you should probably start trying now.' We started trying and it happened quite quickly.

After 40, your chances of getting pregnant are between two and eight percent, and in my particular case, they were less than five percent.

When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.

I don't know why this is, maybe because I am 33 or what, but I didn't think it would be that easy for me to get pregnant. But it was.

To get pregnant, I have resorted to artificial insemination. I want to openly talk about it because this is an opportunity to show my gratitude to all those anonymous donors who help many women to meet, like me, the dream of their life.

Sometimes I get into the mindset that being heterosexual is a brave new world, because you can conceive, and you work out the rest of it once you're pregnant.