The scant appearances of children in the Old Testament, the constant prominence given to the male succession, are followed later on by the promise which buds and flowers in the world-child Jesus, and the childhood which is the new-birth, the golden age of which Jewish seers and prophets had dreamt. ❋ Alexander F. Chamberlain (N/A)
He spoke of his work and the task which he declared had been left to him by Olivier; the awakening of the French, the kindling of that torch of heroic idealism of which Olivier had been the herald: he wished to make himself the resounding voice which should hover above the battlefield and declare the approaching victory: he sang the epic of the new-birth of his race. ❋ Romain Rolland (1905)
This new-birth has been fostered by municipal and private munificence alike. ❋ Unknown (1899)
This is that "Baphometic Fire-baptism" or new-birth of spiritual awakening, which is the beginning of true manhood. ❋ John Kelman (1896)
Her beneficent influence effected his new-birth into calm self-control and harmony of spirit. ❋ Kuno Francke (1892)
This new-birth from above seized upon him like a fever. ❋ Frank Preston Stearns (1881)
There is throughout a lack of the knowledge of the moral depravity of the natural man, and hence of the necessity of a spiritual new-birth; morality is not so much a struggle, as rather a simple development. ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)
We have every reason to think, that the use of the models of the scarabæus as the symbol of the resurrection or new-birth, and the future eternal life of the triumphant or justified dead, existed as an accepted dogma, before the earliest historical knowledge we have thus far been able to acquire of the Ancient Egyptians. ❋ Isaac Myer (1869)
She is [275] one of almost any number of artistic symbols of new-birth, of the renewal of life, drawn from a world which is, after all, so full of it. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)
The only reason urged for this interpretation is, that as Paul contemplates his readers as regenerated, he could not pray that Christ should dwell in their hearts, for such indwelling is inseparable from the new-birth which they already enjoyed. ❋ 1797-1878 (1860)
But there is no new-birth of the soul in eternity. ❋ Unknown (1857)
On the other hand, the classic German philosophy has had a sort of new-birth abroad, particularly in England and Scandinavia, and even in Germany they appear to be substituting the thin soup of eclecticism which seems to flow from the universities under the name of philosophy. ❋ Friedrich Engels (1857)
To how many was the forming of her acquaintance an era of renovation, of awakening from sloth, indulgence or despair, to heroic mastery of fate, of inward serenity and strength, of new-birth to real self-hood, of catholic sympathies, of energy consecrated to the Supreme Good. ❋ Ossoli, Margaret F (1851)
A total change of regimen, change of constitution and existence from the very centre of it; a new body to be got, with resuscitated soul, -- not without convulsive travail-throes; as all birth and new-birth presupposes travail! ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
These days of universal death must be days of universal new-birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
Curious: this law of mutation, which also is a law written in man's inmost thought, had been deciphered by these old earnest Thinkers in their rude style; and how, though all dies, and even gods die, yet all death is but a phoenix fire-death, and new-birth into the Greater and the Better! ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
[Note 3] Consequently, without a new-birth, an entire moral renovation, in which the rebel lays down the arms of his rebellion, and the slave of sin is delivered from the dominion of his depraved habits, and becomes an obedient servant of Christ, loving holiness and delighting in the service of ❋ Unknown (1836)
It will be very hard at first, to master our vicious inclinations, to change the habit of our minds, and the course of our lives, and to act contrary to what we have been long accustomed: but this trouble lasts but for a little while; these pangs of the new-birth, though they be sharp, yet they are not usually of long continuance. ❋ 1630-1694 (1820)
“Dude I think that [food] gave me [a worm]”
“You [gotta] have a New England Water Birth” ❋ Schlembo McMurray (2021)
