Benjamin Watson Quotes

Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

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.

At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see if we're able to live among the living, walk among the living.'

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

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

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

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

Death is not just the end, it's the beginning.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

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

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

What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong.

Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?

Our show is about starting over.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Death is the beginning of something.