Regeneration Quotes

• Every generation needs regeneration

  Charles Spurgeon

  Needs, Generations, Generation Gap

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• No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.

  J. C. Ryle

  Spiritual, Heart, Heaven

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• Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Actors, Divine, Activity

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• Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Growth, Incredibles, Capacity

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Thinking, Our World

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1900). “Pamphlets. Translated from the Russian”

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• Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion.

  Stephen Charnock

  Spiritual, Spiritual Change, Conversion

  Stephen Charnock (1840). “The Doctrine of Regeneration: Selected from the Writings of Stephen Charnock”, p.98

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• How does God save His people from the pleasure of sin? The answer is, “By imparting to them a nature which hates evil and loves holiness.” This takes place when they are born again, so that actual salvation begins with regeneration. Of course it does; where else could it commence? Fallen man can neither perceive his desperate need of salvation, nor come to Christ for it, till he has been renewed by the Holy Spirit.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Hate, Men, Evil

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• That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works.

  John Flavel

  Soul, Spirit, Christ

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• Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Grace, Firsts

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• In modern day evangelism, this precious doctrine [of regeneration] has been reduced to nothing more than a human decision to raise one's hand, walk an aisle, or pray a 'sinner's prayer.' As a result, the majority of Americans believe that they've been 'born again' even though their thoughts, words, and deeds are a continual contradiction to the nature and will of God.

  Paul Washer

  Prayer, Believe, Hands

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• Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Rivers, Fountain, Sanctification

  "Divine Healing of the Body". Book by J. Sidlow Baxter, p. 287, 1979.

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• Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.

  R. C. Sproul

  Overcoming, Power Of God, Omnipotent

  Twitter post from Jan 11, 2016

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• The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Education, Society, Individual

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• There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Revolution, Moral

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1900). “Pamphlets. Translated from the Russian”

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• Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.

  J. C. Ryle

  Outcomes, Principles, New Life

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.41, Letcetera Publishing

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• Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

  John Calvin

  Spiritual, Doe, Fruit

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.39, Jazzybee Verlag

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• He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Suffering, New Life

  "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pt. II, 1866.

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• This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.

  Richard Rogers

  Views, Long, Urban

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• The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

  Carol P. Christ

  Europe, Diversity, Unity

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• Regeneration is the cause of faith, not faith the cause of regeneration.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Causes

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• When you think about it, we’re all different people all through our lives, and that’s okay, that’s good, you’ve got to keep moving so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.

  Matt Smith

  Moving, Thinking, Long

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• The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development, while the message of God is regeneration by the power of the spirit.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  Self, Age, Satanic

  Lewis Sperry Chafer (2016). “Satan: The Devil World”, p.39, 谷月社

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• Faith, Hope & Love. Faith is directed towards God, love towards others (both within the Christian fellowship and beyond it) and hope towards the future, in particular, the glorious coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Similarly, faith rests of the past; love works in the present; hope looks to the future. Every Christian without exception is a believer, a lover and a hoper. Faith, hope and love are three sure evidences of regeneration by the Holy Spirit.

  John Stott

  Christian, Jesus, Past

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Thessalonians”, p.18, SPCK

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• Believing, repenting, and the like, are the product of the new nature; and can never be produced by the old corrupt nature... as the child cannot be active in his own generation, so a man cannot be active in his own regeneration. The heart is shut against Christ: man cannot open it, only God can do it by his grace.

  Thomas Boston

  Children, Believe, Heart

  Thomas Boston (1830). “Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses”, p.144

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• I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

  Joseph Beuys

  Thinking, Tree, Elements

  "Art and Politics: A Small History of Art for Social Change Since 1945". Book by Claudia Mesch, 2013.

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