Quotes about Birth

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

Don't you believe it. I'll tell you what life is. It's gaol, it's not knowing where to get some money. Worms and cataract, cancer. You hear 'em shrieking from the upper windows- children being born. It's dying slowly.

After the cave was authenticated as the place of Christ's birth, Helena's son, Emperor Constantine, issued a decree for the first church building to be constructed on that site in the year 326 AD.9 That earliest church in Bethlehem was built directly on the land above the cave where Christ was born, and in 339 AD, the Church of the Nativity of Christ was dedicated.10

In Matthew 13:55 and 56, we read that after Mary gave birth to Jesus (He was Mary's firstborn), she gave birth to four more boys and to at least two girls. That means Jesus was the eldest of at least six siblings. Matthew 13:55 says about Jesus, "Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses [Joseph], and Simon, and Jude?

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.

A shaking of heads, perhaps even an evil laugh, must go through our old, smart, experienced, self-assured world, when it hears the call of salvation of believing Christians: "For a child has been born for us, a son given to us."5 Dietrich Bonhoeffer

With the birth of Jesus, the great kingdom of peace has begun.

To finally take up his bourgeois responsibility as a German, he went to the spot where God had placed him through birth and talents. He never considered rejecting his position in life.

Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.

The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.