These regeneration quotes will inspire you. Regeneration, the action or process of regenerating or being regenerated, in particular the formation of a new animal or plant tissue.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging regeneration quotes, regeneration sayings, and regeneration proverbs.
Best Regeneration Quotes
- “Every generation needs regeneration” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “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
- “Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.” ~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
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“No salvation without regeneration – no spiritual life without a new birth – no heaven without a new heart.” ~ J. C. Ryle
- “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
- “Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.” ~ J. Sidlow Baxter
- “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
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“The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere
- “Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.” ~ R. C. Sproul
- “This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.” ~ Richard Rogers
- “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
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“Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.” ~ John Calvin
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.” ~ Richard Baxter
- “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
- “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
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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
- “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
- “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
- “Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action.” ~ John Flavel
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“Sanctification is not regeneration.” ~ Matthew Simpson
- “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
- “Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river (in deeper or shallower degree). ‘Entire sanctification’ is the river in fullest flow.” ~ J. Sidlow Baxter
- “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
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“The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.” ~ M. R. DeHaan
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals – and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.” ~ Alexander Hamilton
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.” ~ Joseph Beuys
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.” ~ Ira Gershwin
- “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
- “The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God. It is, however, not an end but an inception, for now begins the glorious pursuit, the heart’s happy exploration of the infinite riches of the Godhead.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.” ~ Jane Jacobs
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“Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion.” ~ Stephen Charnock
- “I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of our time and history, the tremendous loss and tragedy as well as greatness and nobility, an imagination capable of recognizing that where there is light there is shadow, that out of hubris and fall can come moral regeneration, out of suffering and death, resurrection and rebirth.” ~ Richard Tarnas
- “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
- “Unlike the urban development that I see taking over and swallowing up our precious soil, when we interact with our environment in a way that allows for regeneration and natural spaces, the outcome can be beautiful.” ~ Cory Trepanier
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“He (Jesus) came so that we might receive new life through supernatural regeneration.” ~ David Platt
- “Regeneration is the cause of faith, not faith the cause of regeneration.” ~ R. C. Sproul, Jr.
- “Be sure, whatever you leave out, that you teach the children the three R’s,-Ruin, Redemption, and Regeneration.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “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
- “In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.” ~ George Meredith
- “… the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man’s regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.” ~ Tennessee Celeste Claflin
- “Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.” ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
- “Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration–the secret alembics of vitality.” ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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“Earthly regeneration is a parable, but just alone a parable of the things to come.” ~ Paul Althaus
- “Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate … the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism – the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.” ~ George Eliot
- “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
- “Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity” ~ Jonathon Porritt
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“Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.” ~ Henry Williamson
- “Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life’s adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.” ~ Nathaniel Branden
- “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
- “Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men’s lusts, but cannot change their hearts.” ~ Thomas Boston
