A Quote by R. C. Sproul, Jr.

Regeneration is the cause of faith, not faith the cause of regeneration.

R. C. Sproul, Jr.

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R. C. Sproul, Jr.
American - Politician
Born: 1965

The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.

M. R. DeHaan

Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

John Calvin

Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.

Ludwig Feuerbach

Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.

Jack Horner

Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

R. C. Sproul

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

A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and religion are about. Culture as a collective name for certain very valuable activities is a permissible word; but culture hypostatized, set up on its own, made into a faith, a cause, a banner, a platform, is unendurable. For none of the activities in question cares a straw for that faith or cause. It is like a return to early Semitic religion where names themselves were regarded as powers.

C. S. Lewis

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.

Edward'O

If what you hear preached doesn't cause faith to come and build faith in your spirit, then it either isn't the Word of God or else you're not hearing it

Kenneth E. Hagin

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Jean de la Bruyere

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

Miguel de Unamuno

Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith and practice-- books in which Christ and the Holy Ghost have their rightful office-- books in which justification, and sanctification, and regeneration, and faith, and grace, and holiness are clearly, distinctly, and accurately delineated and exhibited, these are the only books which do real good. Few things need reviving more than a taste for such books as these among readers.

J. C. Ryle

Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it.

Fred Reinfeld

[Martin] Luther did not regard the water in baptism as common water, but as a water which had become, through the Word with its inherent divine power, a gracious water of life, a washing of regeneration. Through this divine efficacy of the Word the sacrament effects regeneration.