Quotes About New birth

if it is true that heredity plays a role in the spiritual dispositions that are imprinted on our souls, Jesus' declaration that each of us needs to be born again is even more profound. The DNA of generations past marks itself very deeply in us, and it takes a new birth for us to be able to see through new eyes.

To be penitent, to feel sorry for sin, to shed tears, to even make decisions does not bring in salvation. Confession, decision, and many other religious acts can never be and are not to be construed as new birth. Rational judgment, intelligent understanding, mental acceptance, or the pursuit of the good, the beautiful, and the true are merely soulical activities if the spirit is not reached and stirred.

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."

Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient, the stuff of stars.

Hence so much is said in the Scripture of the quickening, raising, and reviving the inward, new Man, of the new Birth from above, of Christ being formed in us, as the one only Redemption and Salvation of the Soul.

To grasp God in all things--this is the sign of your new birth.

The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.

Ils et elles, poussés par leur instinct vers une nouvelle naissance, s'enfermaient, avant l'expulsion, dans des matrices chaudes et demi-obscures où, secoués par des pulsations sonores, ils perdaient les derniers fragments de préjugés et de conventions qui leur collaient encore par-ici et par-là aux articulations, au sexe ou à la cervelle.

Many believe that the new birth is caused by a profession of faith, but the situation is exactly reversed: A confession of faith in Christ is a result of a person being born again of the Holy Spirit. Jesus

If you have not been born again, a day will come when you wish you had never been born at all.

How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered: Verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God [17:3:3-5].

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper. "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth.

Now, on the Feast of Pentecost, the Father, through the ascended Lord Jesus at His right hand, shed forth the Holy Spirit from "on high," upon all flesh; that is, the new birth, new life in Christ, is now available to all who call upon Him.

Maybe there are clusters of souls born again and again into the same repertory company, and with each new birth they play different parts in a different play. Or maybe it's the same play. This would account for those moments of Oh! there you are! After all, there are those people we like and dislike, there are those people we love, and then there are those we recognize. These are the unbreakable connections.

that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. - President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg address, November 19, 1863

Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.

No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.

Thus when someone is born again, the Holy Spirit gives that person new Fatherward desires, a new heavenward orientation whereby we cry, "Abba, Father!" In other words, all those indwelled by the Holy Spirit really want to pray. The Holy Spirit causes all the children of God to believe that God is their Father and fills them with an undying desire to talk to him.

Without the new birth, all the doctrinal and liturgical work in the world is just the reorganization of dead materials, instead of what it is described in the Bible as being, which is the organization and discipleship of living materials.

We are not born again because we have repented and believed. Rather, we have repented and believed because God has given us the new birth. If the old heart is capable of repentance and belief, then a man does not need a new heart. He simply needs to continue to improve the old one.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 PETER 1:3

Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Our Divine Master does not say unless a man be born again he shall not but, unless a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.

The name of God is the name of the chance for something absolutely new, for a new birth, for the expectation, the hope, the hope against hope (Rom. 4:18) in a transforming future. Without it we are left without hope and are absorbed by rational management techniques.