Born Again Quotes - Page 4

• The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray.

  Chuck Smith

  Christian, Prayer, Important

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• Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Breathing, World

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “A Call to Prayer”, p.6, Editora Dracaena

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• America, you must be born again!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, Born, Economic Justice

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.103, Beacon Press

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• I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

  Sylvia Plath

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  sylvia plath (1971). “the bell jar”

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• What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Rivers, Waiting

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, America, Doubt

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• Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Birthday, Children, Turning 50

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• I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Night, Light, Darkness

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

  Dyan Cannon

  Mean, Born, Concepts

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• I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

  J. C. Ryle

  Sin, Dangerous, Delusion

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• To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings, new dislikings, new fears, new joys, new sorrows, new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved, new thoughts of God, and ourselves, and the world, and the life to come, and salvation.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Views, Hatred

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• I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Country, Travel, Heart

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• There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's why it bothers you now when you sin. The 'wilderness' part of you - your soul - is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

  Joyce Meyer

  Soul, Mind, Stubborn

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• If it is true that men have souls that do survive them, he went on, ignoring me, and if those souls are born again to life, you need not worry that my ghost will haunt you. I'll haunt you in the flesh, instead.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Men, Worry, Soul

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• No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.

  David O. McKay

  Jesus, Real, Teaching

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• To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience, as joy, as being.

  Thomas Merton

  Joy, Intuition, Levels

  "Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation".

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• I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Beach, Ocean, Thinking

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• I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Brother, Pain, Believe

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• The enjoyment of life is only possible if the world could get connected to the spirit... you become the spirit as Christ has said in simple words that you have to be born again.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Simple, Meditation

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• If I were born again, I would still be an industrialist. I complain because it's very hard work with no weekends, but I would still do it.

  Sak?p Sabanc?

  Business, Work, Weekend

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• Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let 'born again' patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Running, Romance, Scandal

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.

  Eric Metaxas

  Wrens, Fleas, Bees

  Eric Metaxas (2012). “Wilberforce: Der Mann, der die Sklaverei abschaffte”, p.124, SCM Hänssler im SCM-Verlag

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• Elvis, heal me, save me. Elvis, make me be born again in the perfect Elvis light.

  Mojo Nixon

  Light, Perfect, Born

  Song: Elvis Is Everywhere

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• There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

  Jupiter Hammon

  White, Two, Heaven

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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