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It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Sanctification is not regeneration. -- Matthew Simpson
Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river. -- J. Sidlow Baxter
Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion. -- Stephen Charnock
Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual. -- Henry Williamson
Regeneration is the cause of faith, not faith the cause of regeneration. -- R. C. Sproul, Jr.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. -- George Meredith
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. -- Joseph Beuys
Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist. -- R. C. Sproul
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. -- Ira Gershwin
Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God. -- Richard Cecil
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Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river (in deeper or shallower degree). 'Entire sanctification' is the river in fullest flow. -- J. Sidlow Baxter
Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action. -- John Flavel
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. -- Carol P. Christ
Every generation needs regeneration -- Charles Spurgeon
This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view. -- Richard Rogers
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are. -- Jack Kornfield
The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration. -- Swami Vivekananda
There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now. -- Carmen Agra Deedy
I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell. -- William Booth
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
Let us, then, who in Baptism have both died and been buried in respect to the carnal sins of the old man, who have risen again with Christ in the heavenly regeneration, both think upon and do the things that are Christ's. -- Cyprian
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
If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them. -- J. C. Ryle
The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
If the election of the Father is not universal and the regeneration of the Holy Spirit is not universal, why would the atonement of the Son be universal? That would put the persons of the Trinity completely at odds with one another-but the triune God is completely unified. -- Shai Linne
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
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself. -- Leo Tolstoy
We have taken the glorious gospel of our blessed God and reduced it down to four spiritual laws and five things God wants you to know, with a little superstitious prayer at the end; and if someone repeats it after us with enough sincerity, we popishly declare them to be born again. We've traded regeneration for decisionism. -- Paul Washer
Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of us self-important, which never produces any work. Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and, above all, perfect obedience; these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration. These traits are altogether lacking in us. -- Swami Vivekananda
Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons. -- Stephen Charnock
I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest. -- Dasha Zhukova
There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man. -- Leo Tolstoy
Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks. -- Helen Clark
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. -- Maxwell Anderson
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
The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated. -- Joel Salatin
Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life. -- J. C. Ryle
I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake. -- David Chipperfield
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. -- William Alexander
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind. -- Calvin Coolidge
Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Of all means to regeneration, Remorse is surely the most wasteful. -- E. M. Forster
France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
If there is no fruit in sanctification, there is no root in regeneration. -- Steven J Lawson
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
He (Jesus) came so that we might receive new life through supernatural regeneration. -- David Platt
Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Earthly regeneration is a parable, but just alone a parable of the things to come. -- Paul Althaus
Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification. -- William J. Seymour
Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts. -- Thomas Boston
I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration. -- Dorothy Day
Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith. -- R. C. Sproul
In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh. -- John Calvin
No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart. -- J. C. Ryle
To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation. -- Richard Baxter
The stupendous task of human regeneration will be accomplished only by the purified vision of hearts that grow not cold. -- Alexander Berkman
... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself. -- Tennessee Celeste Claflin
Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
Admittance into the true church of Christ is based on regeneration, not merely on an affirmation of a creed or doctrine. The -- John Bunyan
Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development, while the message of God is regeneration by the power of the spirit. -- Lewis Sperry Chafer
A man of nothing who has started out from nothing starting out from an unassignable place: these are, for Machiavelli, the conditions for regeneration. -- Louis Althusser
we grant evil freewill (or freewill to evil) is remaining in all natural men: we believe that freewill to good, is from grace and regeneration. -- Henry Ainsworth
In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The story of a regeneration of convictions - can any story in the entire field of literature be more filled with thrilling and all-absorbing interest? -- Lev Shestov
That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works. -- John Flavel
Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species. -- Louise J. Kaplan
Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature. -- Dora Russell
The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front. -- Chinua Achebe
It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration. -- Alexander Hamilton
Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper. -- Richard Wagner
Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity -- Jonathon Porritt
A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful agony of slow rebirth and psychic regeneration -- Sylvia Plath
I place my trust in You, O adorable Blood, our Redemption, our regeneration. Fall, drop by drop, into the hearts that have wandered from You and soften their hardness. -- Agnes of Rome
We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of the hope for a monstrous world without gender. -- Donna J. Haraway
? top up position down? bottomThe corruption of religious leaders, who were expected to be the source of spiritual force and regeneration, is the last step in the decay of a community. -- Fazlur Rahman
In or towards whomsoever the Holy Spirit puts forth His power, or acts his grace for their regeneration, he removes all obstacles, overcomes all oppositions, and infallibly produces the intended effect. -- John Owen
It is only you, treading in the blessed path of peace and freedom, who can bring about the true regeneration of society, and with it the true happiness of your own lives. -- Auberon Herbert
* We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us. -- Oren Lyons
By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration. -- E. F. Schumacher
As among all the doctrines of the gospel, there is none opposed with more violence and subtlety than that concerning our regeneration by the immediate, powerful, effectual operation of the Holy Spirit of grace. -- John Owen
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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