Regeneration Quotes - Page 2

• As among all the doctrines of the gospel, there is none opposed with more violence and subtlety than that concerning our regeneration by the immediate, powerful, effectual operation of the Holy Spirit of grace.

  John Owen

  Powerful, Grace, Doctrine

  John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.337

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• There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Loss, Important, Remember

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• Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

  George Meredith

  Death, Nature, Garden

  George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.203

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• One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon the heart. But He does not use the padlock at all, He renders such a thing unnecessary. He takes the tiger from the heart, and replaces it with the lamb.

  Edward Thomson

  Heart, Hands, Padlocks

  Edward Thomson (1872). “Evidences of Revealed Religion”, p.228

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• The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.

  M. R. DeHaan

  Inspiration, Church, Legislation

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• Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as we give up the life of self (and note that, like forgiveness, repentance and humility are also special cases of giving), as we abandon what the German mystics called "the I, me, mine," we make ourselves progressively capable of receiving grace. By grace we are enabled to know reality more completely, and this knowledge of reality helps us to give up more of the life of selfhood - and so on, in a mounting spiral of illumination and regeneration.

  Aldous Huxley

  Giving Up, Humility, Reality

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• To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.

  Richard Baxter

  Children, Men, People

  Richard Baxter, John Wesley (1848). “The Saints' Everlasting Rest; Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory”, p.61

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• Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river (in deeper or shallower degree). 'Entire sanctification' is the river in fullest flow.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Rivers, Degrees, Flow

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

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• If you're a gardener, or creating a garden you're clearly looking to the future. You have a sense of your own future and a sense of yourself in that space. People coming here feel that hope, that renewal, and that sense of regeneration. They get their hands dirty and connect back to the ground, which is what we feel strongly about - giving everybody the opportunity to get connected to the earth.

  Amanda Marshall

  Dirty, Opportunity, Garden

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• It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Evil, Reform, Improvement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.314, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action.

  John Flavel

  Soul, Quality, Principles

  John Flavel (1875). “The Method of Grace, in the Holy Spirits Applying to the Souls of Men the Eternal Redemption Contrived by the Father, and Accomplished by the Son (etc.)”, p.4

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• It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Students, Impossible, Programming

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

  William Booth

  Heaven, Ghost, Hell

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sanctification is not regeneration.

  Matthew Simpson

  Sanctification

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• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

  Ira Gershwin

  Change, Music, Encouragement

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• Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

  Tertullian

  Soul, Flesh, Birth

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.426, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Philosophy, Moving, Mean

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.146, Cosimo, Inc.

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• While the agent of renovation is the Divine Spirit, and the condition of renovation is our cleaving to Christ, the medium of renovation and the weapon which the transforming grace employs is "the word of the truth of the gospel," whereby we are sanctified.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Grace, Agents, Weapons

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 491, 1895.

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• Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?

  Charles Kingsley

  Religious, Heart, Character

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.125, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He that is once "born of God shall overcome the world," and the prince of this world too, by the power of God in him. Holiness is no solitary, neglected thing; it hath stronger confederacies, greater alliances, than sin and wickedness. It is in league with God and the universe; the whole creation smiles upon it; there is something of God in it, and therefore it must needs be a victorious and triumphant thing.

  Ralph Cudworth

  League, Stronger, Overcoming

  Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1838). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated. A Treatise on Immutable Morality; with a Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper: and Two Sermons on 1. John 2: 3, 4, and 1. Cor. 15: 27”, p.577

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• He (Jesus) came so that we might receive new life through supernatural regeneration.

  David Platt

  Jesus, New Life, Might

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.57, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Let us, then, who in Baptism have both died and been buried in respect to the carnal sins of the old man, who have risen again with Christ in the heavenly regeneration, both think upon and do the things that are Christ's.

  Cyprian

  Men, Thinking, Baptism

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• Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all

  John Calvin

  Men, Grace, Special

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.235, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If there is no fruit in sanctification, there is no root in regeneration.

  Steven J Lawson

  Roots, Fruit, Sanctification

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• But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

  John Calvin

  Flesh, Spirit

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.256, Jazzybee Verlag

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