Quotes about Birth
The boat spelled enveloping safety, a return to the womb. But when the men came ashore, that was birth: exposure. The sky's a hideous thing to men who want to hide from it.' Dr
— Frank Herbert
I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.
— Billy Graham
I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
— Ronald Reagan
Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I do hope I wasn't born in some dreadful mitochondrion which lives in some horrible isolated human host on a lonely planet like yours.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The better word, of course, is joy, because it doesn't have anything to do with pain, physical or spiritual. I have been wholly in joy when I have been in pain—childbirth is the obvious example. Joy is what has made the pain bearable and, in the end, creative rather than destructive.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Now we leave our tears for mirth. Now we sing, not death, but birth.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You were born with success in you and simply need to give it a pathway of expression.
— Mensah Oteh
In the Gospel story we find five great points of special importance; the birth, the life on earth, the death, the resurrection, and the ascension. In these we have what an old writer has called the process of Jesus Christ; the process by which He became what He is to-day--our glorified King, and our life. In all this life process we must be made like unto Him.
— Andrew Murray
There is no possibility of salvation but in and by the birth of the meek, humble, patient, resigned Lamb of God in our souls.
— Andrew Murray
In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of hell.
— Andrew Murray
The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
— Samuel Johnson