Quotes about Birth
What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?
— Jim Cymbala
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:The soul that rises with us, our life's star,Hath had elsewhere its setting,And cometh from afar:Not in entire forgetfulness,And not in utter nakedness,But trailing clouds of glory do we comeFrom God, who is our home:Heaven lies about us in our infancy!Shades of the prison-house begin to closeUpon the growing boy.
— William Wordsworth
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.
— William Wordsworth
Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home.
— William Wordsworth
As I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
— Philip Yancey
Love is this and love is that; man is born to love; he is only alive when he is in the presence of a woman he loves or should love.
— Elie Wiesel
Our sages teach us that two angels attach themselves to a man at birth and never leave him. One walks before and helps him climb mountains, the other follows in the shadows and pushes him toward his fall.
— Elie Wiesel
A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
— Robert Frost
An existing individual is constantly in process of becoming,... and translates all his thinking into terms of process. It is with (him)... as it is with a writer and his style; for he only has a style who never has anything finished, but 'moves the waters of the language' every time he begins, so that the most common expression comes into being for him with the freshness of a new birth.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
— Deepak Chopra
Yet the only reason you believe that you were born is that your parents saw you emerge from the womb. They thought they witnessed the moment when you began to exist, so they spread the rumor that you had been born." Savitri was astonished. . .
— Deepak Chopra
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper. "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth.
— Deepak Chopra