Quotes about Birth

and the birth of Jesus, two things become clear. First, in the witness to Jesus by the early Christians in the New Testament, they relied heavily on Old Testament "anticipations" of the coming Messiah. But second, Jesus did not fit those "anticipations" very well, such that a good deal of interpretive imagination was required in order to negotiate the connection between the anticipation and the actual bodily, historical reality of Jesus.

Because it is address, attending always on the response of the addressed, infinite speech has the form of listening. Infinite speech does not end in the obedient silence of the hearer, but continues by way of the attentive silence of the speaker. It is not a silence into which speech has died, but a silence from which speech is born.

Nobody chooses where they're born. And, of course, I would know.

Christ is born into the world through each of us.

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

Christ was born of a woman without the man.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.