Quotes about Rebirth

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

with Christ in faith a wholly new life begins. It is not a restored life, and it is not a rejuvenated life either. It is not even a life reborn out of its origin. The resurrection of Christ has no historical prototype. It is something completely new in history. It is the beginning of the new creation of everything.

And as to the Lord's prayer, although it be an easy thing to say, Our Father, etc., with the mouth; yet there is very few that can, in the Spirit, say the two first words in that prayer; that is, that can call God their Father, as knowing what it is to be born again, and as having experience, that they are begotten of the Spirit of God: which if they do not, all is but babbling, etc.

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

All the children of God on earth are alike in this respect. From the moment there is any life and reality about their religion, they pray. Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world, is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again, is praying.

Grace does not run in families. It needs something more than good examples and good advice to make us children of God. Those who are born again are not born of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God, (John 1:13.) Praying parents should pray night and day, that their children may be born of the Spirit.

Breaking up the unplowed ground of your heart will make it ready for new life, new growth, new maturity in you.

I'll feel my heaven anew

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.