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Regeneration: Quotations from Burning Words

Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.— RICHARD CECIL

I never wish to be more charitable than Christ. I find it written: Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."— C. H. SPURGEON

You are sons because born again, or slaves and enemies because of wicked works. Creed, or the belief in a certain amount of doctrine, has made Christendom, but never made a Christian. “Ye must be born again."— W. P. MACKAY

Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

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

The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere - moral nature; with the highest prerogative — to change nature; and operating to the highest result - not to create originally, which is great; but to create anew, which is greater.— WILLIAM ARTHUR

Regeneration is the beginning of holiness in the soul, and admits of no progression; sanctification is carried on progressively in the heart of the renewed, and will be continued until it is completed in the concluding moment of life.— CHARLES BACKUS

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

Regeneration is, we know, instantaneous; but the steps that lead to it are often very gradual; and none of them, so far as we can see, can be spared.— T. W. CHAMBERS

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

A man may beat down the bitter fruit from an evil tree until he is weary; whilst the root abides in strength and vigor, the beating down the present fruit will not hinder it from bringing forth more.— JOHN OWEN