Born Again Quotes - Page 9

• The Lord has given an overcoming victory to every person who is born again.

  T. B. Joshua

  Victory, Overcoming, Lord

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• We have taken the glorious gospel of our blessed God and reduced it down to four spiritual laws and five things God wants you to know, with a little superstitious prayer at the end; and if someone repeats it after us with enough sincerity, we popishly declare them to be born again. We've traded regeneration for decisionism.

  Paul Washer

  Spiritual, Prayer, Blessed

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• There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves. To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves.

  Thomas Merton

  Recovery, Creative, Instinct

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.52, Sounds True

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• Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.

  Ajahn Chah

  Born

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• Eternal life is not a peculiar feeling inside! It is not your ultimate destination, to which you will go when you are dead. If you are born again, eternal life is that quality of life that you possess right now.

  W. Ian Thomas

  Feelings, Quality, Peculiar

  W. Ian Thomas (1988). “The Saving Life of Christ and the Mystery of Godliness”, p.140, Harper Collins

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• When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.

  George R. R. Martin

  Stars, Dragons, Darkness

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1747, Bantam

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• Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Mom, Daughter, Baby

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• Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

  Jermaine Jackson

  Islam, Answers, Christianity

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• We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be born again to enter the Kingdom of God, I can tell you that you have to sell everything you have and give it to the poor, because Jesus said that to one guy, too. But I guess that's why God invented highlighers, so we can highlight the parts we like and ignore the rest.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Giving, Guy

  "The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical". Book by Shane Claiborne, 2006.

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• Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.

  Noam Chomsky

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

  "The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.

  Markus Zusak

  Running, Morning, Sunshine

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• And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.

  Hermann Hesse

  Home, Sky, Earth

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Two, Doubt

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• Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5)

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Men, Water

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• If you have eternal life at all, it simply means that you have the Son, Jesus Christ ­ NOW! Eternal life is not a peculiar feeling inside! It is not your ultimate destination, to which you will go when you are dead. If you are born again, eternal life is that quality of life that you possess right now, at this very moment, in your own physical body, with your own two feet on the ground, and in the world TODAY! And where does this life come from? Of Him! He is that life! So if you have eternal life, it means that you have Somebody, Jesus Christ, and the life that you possess is of Him.

  W. Ian Thomas

  Jesus, Mean, Son

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• I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

  Og Mandino

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I now look at the world not as a child, but as an adult. I see what's bad and it's really bad. But I also see what is beautiful, what is wonderful. And I feel so deeply appreciative that I am alive. How dare the religious use the term 'born again.' That truly describes freethinkers who've thrown off the shackles of religion so much better!

  Julia Sweeney

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Religious

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• Self-creation never ends. You are continually creating yourself from the field of infinite possibilities. You are, in every moment, born again. And so is everyone else.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Self, Creating

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 01, 2014

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• If you have truly been born again, it was the Holy Spirit who convicted you of sin and drew you into a relationship with Jesus.

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Spirit, Sin

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