I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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If I was telling that story in a '50s style, it would have been a melodrama, ... a story of 'An innocent girl falls into the seedy, sordid world of bondage and then sees the light and is born again.' If I were telling it now in an urban, sophisticated way, you would have a story about a girl who is a free spirit, who does these lighthearted bondage photos, then she crashes and she turns to religion which would be the tragedy in the modern view, because it's so polarized now that people see any religion as representing the horrible forces of puritanism. I was trying to comment on the sad confusion surrounding sex at that time, present it in a complex way, and give her religion a fair hearing too.
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In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.
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The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
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I remember a dream two nights ago: the voice, 'the artist must create himself or be born again.'
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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I'm a born-again atheist.
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The one who truly understands My transcendental birth and activities, is not born again after leaving this body and attains My abode.
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A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
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1 Peter 1:3:
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
(NIV)
Praised (honored, blessed) be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah)! By His boundless mercy we have been born again to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
(AMP)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
(KJV)
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If you are born again, then do you have two belly button?
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1 John 5:1:
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.
(NIV)
EVERYONE WHO believes (adheres to, trusts, and relies on the fact) that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah) is a born-again child of God; and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him (His offspring).
(AMP)
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
(KJV)
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Matthew 5:6:
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
(NIV)
Blessed and fortunate and happy and spiritually prosperous (in that state in which the born-again child of God enjoys His favor and salvation) are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God), for they shall be completely satisfied! [Isa. 55:1, 2.](AMP)
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
(KJV)
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1 Peter 1:23:
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
(NIV)
You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from one that is immortal by the ever living and lasting Word of God.
(AMP)
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
(KJV)
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Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again.
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Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.
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John 3:3:
Jesus replied, 'Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.'
(NIV)
Jesus answered him, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that unless a person is born again (anew, from above), he cannot ever see (know, be acquainted with, and experience) the kingdom of God.
(AMP)
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
(KJV)
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John 3:7:
You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.'
(NIV)
Marvel not [do not be surprised, astonished] at My telling you, You must all be born anew (from above).
(AMP)
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
(KJV)
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Matthew 5:10:
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
(NIV)
Blessed and happy and enviably fortunate and spiritually prosperous (in the state in which the born-again child of God enjoys and finds satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of his outward conditions) are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake (for being and doing right), for theirs is the kingdom of heaven!
(AMP)
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
(KJV)
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