I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
J. C. RylePraying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
J. C. RyleNo salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.
J. C. RyleTo be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings, new dislikings, new fears, new joys, new sorrows, new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved, new thoughts of God, and ourselves, and the world, and the life to come, and salvation.
J. C. Ryle