Regeneration Quotes

Wherever there is ‘faith’ without regeneration it has to be that the uncured enmity of the natural man to spiritual things remains.

~ Iain H. Murray

The Doctor is all of us, he lives and dies as all of us, and we need him to – because no matter the anvil-imagery of the Doctor as Christ, this is actually a far older and far simpler story than that. Everything changes. We all regenerate. I am not the same woman who first saw Rose ascend. Years go by and I become someone new, with the same memories but a new face, a new self.

~ Catherine Valenti

Spiritual regeneration is a change on the inside of a person or nation as a a result of coming to Jesus, and a change of value system in his life

~ Sunday Adelaja

Those who intend to destroy me, underestimate my ability to regenerate.

~ Aleksandra Ninkovic

A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

~ Andy Stanley

I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.

~ W.p. Kinsella

Past experiences are doubtful food for Christians, a present coming to Christ alone can give us joy and comfort.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You're looking at the face of a black man who hates nobody.

~ Martin Luther King Sr.

Here,” he said, “I place the man I was aside the man I am now. And we have not the same hope nor thought, yet are one continuous breath from the body of I, Akiyama Akio.

~ Tamara Rendell

The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his mercy and find peace, or else it will turn against Him because it is not yet ready to give up its sinfulness. Thus He will separate the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff. Man's reaction to this Divine Presence will be the test: either it will call out all the opposition of egotistic natures, or else galvanize them into a regeneration and a resurrection.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

New converts displayed a most un-Roman concern for the sick man.

~ John Charles Pollock

Change blows through the branches of our existence. It fortifies the roots on which we stand, infuses crimson experience with autumn hues, dismantles Winter’s brittle leaves, and ushers Spring into our fertile environments. Seeds of evolution burst from their pod cocoons and teardrop buds blossom into Summer flowers. Change releases its redolent scent, attracting the buzz of honey bees and the adoration of discerning butterflies.

~ B.g. Bowers

Only God can make the common sacred.

~ Beth Moore

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

~ Richard Rohr

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

~ John Eldredge

A transformed life is the greatest of all miracles. Every time a person is “born again” by repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ, the miracle of regeneration is performed.

~ Billy Graham

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My inward experience has often been a wilderness; but Thou hast owned me still as Thy beloved, and poured streams of love and grace into me to gladden me, and make me fruitful.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me.

~ Charles Dickens

But in his lapsed and sinful state, man is not capable, of any by himself, either to think, to will, or to do that which is really good, but it is necessary for him to be regenerated and renewed in his intellect, affections or will, and in all his powers, by God in Christ through the Holy Spirit, that he may be qualified rightly to understand, esteem, consider, will, and perform whatever is truly good. When he is made a partaker of this regeneration or renovation, I consider that, since he is delivered from sin, he is capable of thinking, willing, and doing that which is good, but yet not without the continued aids of Divine Grace.

~ James Arminius

The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ, is that he is more clearly aware than other men of the rebelliousness and perennial pride of the flesh, he is conscious of his sloth and self-indulgence and knows that his arrogance must be eradicated. Hence there is a need for daily self-discipline.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.

~ Philip Zaleski

How has Paul kept his wonder? He never forgot who he had been.

~ Beth Moore

We must remember that all stations are as much about life as they are obviously about death. All is redeemed. All is grist for transformation and glory.

~ Megan Mckenna

Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.

~ Steven Hall

It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.

~ R.c. Sproul

When the convert emerges from the water, the world seems changed. The world has not changed, it is always wonderful and horrible, iniquitous and filled with beauty. But now, after baptism, the eyes that see the world have changed.

~ Liturgy Training Publications

He is himself again, more himself than at any time on this Earth. Nancy Reagan on her husband

~ Bill O'reilly

The bottle of the creature cracks and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails; happy is he who dwells at the well.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Jesus takes the chaos of the world upon Himself.

~ Mark Sayers

God likes to make people. Great people out of common people, strong people out of week people, famous people out of the unknown people, good people are bad people. God likes to make people. That's an obsession with God, one from which He will never change.

~ Don Baker

This figure upon the Cross is not a MVD agent or a Gestapo inquisitor, but a Divine Physician, Who only asks that we bring our wounds to Him in order that He may heal them. If our sins be as scarlet, they shall be washed white as snow, and if they be as red as crimson, they shall be made white as wool. Was it not He Who told us, “I say to you, that even so there shall be more joy in Heaven upon one sinner that doth penance than upon ninety-nine just who need not penance” (Luke 15:7)? In the story of the prodigal, did He not describe the Father as saying, “Let us eat and make merry: because this my son was dead and is come to life again; was lost and is found” (Luke 15:23, 24)? Why is there more joy in Heaven for the repentant sinner than for the righteous? Because God’s attitude is not judgment but love. In judgment, one is not as joyful after doing wrong as before; but in love, there is joy because the danger and worry of losing that soul is past. He who is sick is loved more than he who is well, because he needs it more. Some will feign sickness to solicit love and pretend wounds that the beloved may bind them.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

We can no more assist the Holy Spirit in the quickening of our souls to spiritual life than Lazarus could help Jesus raise him from the dead.

~ R.c. Sproul

Most people in America, when they are exposed to the Christian faith, are not being transformed. They take one step into the door, and the journey ends. They are not being allowed, encouraged, or equipped to love or to think like Christ. Yet in many ways a focus on spiritual formation fits what a new generation is really seeking. Transformation is a process, a journey, not a one-time decision.

~ David Kinnaman

The author offers Paul Tripp's analogy that most of the strategies for growth in the Christian life amounts to stapling live roses on a dead bush.

~ J.d. Greear

After her initial conversion as a teenager, the author writes, I was sent back into a world that no longer looked familiar to me. I had to relearn how to do everything.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.

~ Alister E. Mcgrath