Associated perhaps initially with Jesus People and the Christian counterculture, born again came to refer to a conversion experience, accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior in order to be saved from Hell and given eternal life with God in Heaven, and was increasingly used as a term to identify devout believers.

Baum was born in Chittenango, New York, in 1856, into a devout Methodist family.

Leigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley in the campus of St. Paul's School, Darjeeling, Bengal, India ( British India ), to Ernest Hartley, an English officer in the Indian Cavalry, and Gertrude Mary Robinson Yackjee ( 1888-1972 ), a devout Roman Catholic of Irish and Armenian descent, the daughter of Mary I. Robinson and John G. Yackjee, who wed in 1872.

Durkheim was born in Épinal in Lorraine, coming from a long line of devout French Jews ; his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had been rabbis.

Ossietzky was born in Hamburg, the son of Carl Ignatius von Ossietzky ( 1848 – 1891 ), a Protestant from Upper Silesia, and Rosalie ( née Pratzka ), a devout Catholic who wished for Carl to become a monk.

* Edward Hicks, born in Attleboro ( now Langhorne ), devout Quaker and noted artist, whose best known painting is probably The Peaceable Kingdom.

Yogananda at age sixYogananda was born in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India to a devout family.

Theodore Alvin Holtzberg was born in Far Rockaway, New York City to a devout jewish couple.

Cohen was born in Alexandria to a devout Orthodox Jewish and Zionist family in 1924.

Evert was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Colette Thompson and Jimmy Evert, and raised in a devout Roman Catholic family.

Rajaji was born to Chakravarti Venkatarya Iyengar, munsiff of Thorapalli Village and Singaramma on 10 December 1878 into a devout Iyengar family of Thorapalli in the Madras Presidency.

Foxe was born in Boston, in Lincolnshire, England of a middlingly prominent family and seems to have been an unusually studious and devout child.

Balakrishna Menon ( Balan ) was born in Ernakulam, Kerala in a devout Hindu noble family called " Poothampilli " of Parukutti Amma and Vadakke Kurupath Kuttan Menon.

Ferguson was born in Hacienda Heights, California, the daughter of devout Roman Catholic school teachers Theresa Ann ( née Gore ) and Jon Patrick Ferguson.

He was born a Catholic and became increasingly devout in middle life, after the loss in 1838 of his eldest son by his second marriage ( to Rebecca Adcock ) and then, in the 1850s, both the children of his first marriage ( to Mary Hutchinson, who had died in childbirth ).

Eckart was born Johann Dietrich Eckart in 1868 in Neumarkt, Upper Palatinate ( about twenty miles southeast of Nuremberg ) in the Kingdom of Bavaria, the son of royal notary and lawyer Christian Eckart and his wife Anna, a devout Catholic.

Read was born to a former army father and a mother who was a devout Seventh-day Adventist.

He is a devout born again Christian and spends a great deal of time volunteering in ministry.

Duncan was born in Oakland, California, as Edward Howard Duncan Jr. His mother, Marguerite Pearl Duncan, had died in childbirth and his father was unable to afford him, so in 1920 he was adopted by Edwin and Minnehaha Symmes, a family of devout Theosophists.

Sri Nisargadatta was born on April 17, 1897, at break of dawn, the full moon in the month of Chaitra, to a devout Hindu couple Shivrampant Kambli and Parvatibai, in Bombay.

Ricœur was born in Valence, Drôme, France to a devout Protestant family, making him a member of a religious minority in Catholic France.

Al-Qaradawi was born in Safat Turab village in the Nile Delta, Egypt, in a poor family of devout Muslim peasants.

" Saichō was born into a family of devout Buddhists.

Marcial Maciel was born on March 10, 1920, into a devout Catholic family during a time in which the Mexican government was fiercely anticlerical.

During her stay on death row, Barfield became a devout born again Christian.

Although he later broke with the churches because he believed that they were insufficiently outspoken against social evils, he remained a devout Christian.

It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice.

Lyell, a devout Christian, had great difficulty reconciling his beliefs with natural selection.

His father, Walter A. Rogers, was a civil engineer and his mother, Julia M. Cushing, was a housewife and devout Pentecostal Christian.

Gregory was given to the Christian Holy Father Phirmilianos ( Euthalius ) to be educated and was brought up as a devout Christian.

On the coming of his age, Gregory married a woman called Miriam a devout Christian who was the daughter of a Christian Armenian Prince in Cappadocia.

He seemed to bond closely with Fincher, a devout Christian, and the two prayed together and discussed religion at length.

He was a devout Christian and preached on one occasion at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London on the topic of evidence for the resurrection.

Leakey was also a devout Christian.

Raised a devout Christian by her mother, Murray had initially become a Sunday School teacher in order to preach the faith.

Malthus — a devout Christian — argued that revelation would " damp the soaring wings of intellect ", and thus never let " the difficulties and doubts of parts of the scripture " interfere with his work.

Some devout Christian Americans have been disinclined to believe that there may have been non-religious ( or even non-Christian ) presidents, especially amongst the Founding Fathers of the United States.

He claimed to be a devout Roman Catholic, claiming that one of the purposes of the Meditations was to defend the Christian faith.

Truth had a life-changing religious experience during her stay with the Van Wageners, and became a devout Christian.

Bullock had initially turned down the role three times due to a discomfort with portraying a devout Christian.

* In Patristic Greek Christian sources, theologia could refer narrowly to devout and inspired knowledge of, and teaching about, the essential nature of God.

He is succeeded by his 7-year-old son, Theodosius II, who rules under the domination of his devout Christian sister Pulcheria and Anthemius, who acts as regent.

A devout Christian, Tubman ascribed the visions and vivid dreams to revelations from God.

Anne's experience in France made her a devout Christian in the new tradition of Renaissance humanism.

Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island practise a form of Celtic paganism.

Howie, a devout and celibate Christian, travels to the island and is profoundly disturbed to find a society that worships the old pagan, Celtic gods of their ancestors.

Howie's devout Christian lifestyle and his livelihood as a policeman mean that he meets the outstanding criteria for a human that is to be sacrificed to appease the gods.