Born Again Quotes

• There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Beauty, God, Christian

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• When a man or woman is born again by the Spirit of God they will give evidence of it in part by striving to live a holy life.

  Alistair Begg

  Men, Giving, Spirit

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• Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Happiness, New Year

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• The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.

  J. I. Packer

  Born

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• Many Christians have the mistaken notion that eternal life begins when they die. But that is not biblically accurate. Eternal life begins when we are born again into the Kingdom of God.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Kingdoms, Eternal Life

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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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• The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

  Billy Graham

  Life, Faith, God

  Billy Graham (2006). “Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, p.22, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

  Oswald Chambers

  Joy, Purpose, Fulfillment

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?

  Origen

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religious, Art, Prayer

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• When a defiled man is born again, his habits are changed, his thoughts cleansed, his attitudes regenerated and elevated, his activities put in total order, and everything about him that was dirty, degenerate or reprobate is washed and made clean.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Attitude, Dirty, Men

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• We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Jesus, Children

  Interview, 16 Mar. 1976

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• When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Lord, Risen

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.216, Discovery House

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• Worship is why we are born and why we are born again.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Worship, Born

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• The one who is truly born again will love the Word of God.

  R. A. Torrey

  Born, Word Of God

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• I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.

  J. C. Ryle

  Religious, Soul, Feelings

  "Holiness (Abridged): Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots".

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• When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.

  Bill McCartney

  Dna, Ability, Term

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• Jesus proclaimed, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. .. He is saying that a whole new order is about to enter history, and if you want to be a part of it, you will need a change so fundamental that the Gospel of John would later refer to it as a "new birth". Being born again was not meant to be a private religious experience that is hard to communicate. .. but rather the prerequisite for joining a new and very public movement - the Jesus and kingdom of God movement.

  Jim Wallis

  Religious, Jesus, Hands

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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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• If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.

  Oswald Chambers

  Teacher, Jesus, Way

  Oswald Chambers (2016). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”, p.5, Gideon House Books

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• The kingdom of heaven is for the heirs - and if children, then heirs; if born again, then heirs. Wherefore it is said expressly, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. By this one word, down goes all carnal privilege of being born of flesh and blood, and of the will of man. Canst thou produce the birthright?

  John Bunyan

  Children, Men, Blood

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1323, Delphi Classics

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• Everything you go through as a Christian is a training exercise behind which God has a divine purpose. He did not save you so that you could cruise into paradise on a luxury liner; He saved
  you to prepare you to be of use in His kingdom. The moment you were born again, He enrolled you in His school of suffering. And every affliction, every trial, is another lesson in the curriculum.

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, School, Exercise

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• Yes, it’s embarrassing to be born again, but imagine how embarrassing it must have been to be born the first time. At least this time you get to wear clothes!

  Rich Mullins

  Clothes, Firsts, Imagine

  Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

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• Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Forever, Sin, Satan

  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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• I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

  Bono

  Wish, Trying, Serious

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