Choice Quotes on Regeneration

"Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river."
- J. Sidlow Baxter

"Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration."
- John Calvin

"When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit."
- John Calvin

"Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion."
- Stephen Charnock

"Regeneration is the communication of the divine nature to men by the operation of the Holy Spirit through the Word.

- A.J. Gordon

"Whatever man may do after regeneration, the first quickening of the dead must originate with God."
- A.A. Hodge

Spiritual life is the consequence of spiritual quickening. The baby cries because is is born; it is not born because it cries."
- Erroll Hulse

"When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively."
- Martin Luther

"Just as in the beginning 'God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light' so, at the moment He appointed for our new birth, he said, 'Let there be life' and there was life.
- J.A. Motyer

"Regeneration is inseperable from its effects and one of its effects is faith."
- John Murray

"The embrace of Christ in faith is the first evidence of regeneration and only thus may we know that we have been regenerated."
- John Murray.

"Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart."
- J.I. Packer

"The new creation is as much and entirely the work of God as the old creation"
- C.H. Spurgeon

"God regenerates the Soul by uniting it to Jesus Christ"
- Augustus H. Strong

Quotes taken from The Complete Gathered Gold by John Blanchard