“The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.” PainSufferingPleasureForeverBirthLifetimeRoundsEndlessWheelsHinduismLife DeathSentient BeingsBirth And Death Author:Frederick Lenz
“If faith, then new birth; if new birth, then sonship; if sonship, then "an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ." But if you have not got your foot upon the lowest round of the ladder, you will never come within sight of the blessed face of Him who stands at the top of it, and who looks down to you at this moment, saying to you, "My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?” IfsLooksChildrenMomentsFacesFatherChristFeetCryBirthSightBlessedRoundsMy ChildrenLowestLaddersJointsHeirsAbbaAbba Father Book:Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester
“If you are lying down to give birth, gravity is not helping you. You know, you stand up and, you know, a baby will basically kind of fall out of you, if you keep walking 'round.” IfsKnowsGivingKindHelpingLyingFallBabyBirthWalkingRoundsGravityLying Down Author:Caitlin Moran
“Look at the Bethlehem birth. A king ordered a census. Joseph was forced to travel. Mary, as round as a ladybug, bounced on a donkey's back. The hotel was full. The hour was late. The event was one big hassle. Yet, out of the hassle, hope was born. It still is.” LooksStillsBigsBornHoursEventsBirthKingsLateRoundsHotelMaryDonkeyBethlehemCensusHassleLadybugs Author:Max Lucado
“If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?” IfsWantShouldLittlesLife IsFightingBirthRoundsGloriousSecondsScrapExhilaratingBefore And AfterHassle Author:Ken Kesey
“It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began.” YearsStoriesAgeJesusChristLordSonBirthJesus ChristSeasonsRoundsAccidentsSunsetSaviorResurrectionSunriseCoincidenceOur LordLife DeathSunrise And SunsetSavior JesusBirth Life Book:The Last Sin Eater Source: The Last Sin Eater
“The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan — everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing.” WorldMadeStillsPartyStreetsLandFiguresNew YorkBirthSingingBirdRoundsChinaLondonEndlessMysteriousParisJapanVillageForbiddenFrontiersBerlinMonstrousBrazilUnconquerableToilingChildbearingBazaarsChina And JapanStreets Of Paris Book:1984 Source: 1984
“Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.” FeelingsEarthChanceBirthSpringRoundsHumbleWelcomeSpotsTheeFixedFancyAprilSpringtimeSpring FlowersHarbingerWelcome Spring Author:Bernard Barton