George MacDonald Quotes

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

Now I've gone for too long Living like I'm not alive So I'm going to start over tonight Beginning with you and I

The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of this dead sleep - about a 43-year sleep - and in place of all that darkness was a joy that I can't describe.

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

And even our present acres of death will someday bloom again.

The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.

There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.

When you pass from death into the life, you become a new person, and so everything you do flows from that.

'Rise' has a lot of different meanings. It's a call to action to rise from the dead and actually live.

From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.