Quotes related to 2 Corinthians 5:17
It's not where you start, but whether you start.
— Terri Savelle Foy
When your surroundings are infused with memories of the past, you tend to remain in the past. You are prone to keep looking back rather than focusing forward on the new things God has for you.
— Terri Savelle Foy
When we clear the clutter, we are not erasing the memories. Holding on means not letting go. God has so much more for your life. You haven't seen your best days yet, but your clutter could be preventing you from recognizing the new things awaiting you.
— Terri Savelle Foy
Make your dreams bigger than your memories
— Terri Savelle Foy
The good God does not need years to accomplish His work of love in a soul; one ray from His Heart can, in an instant, make His flower bloom for eternity.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
I live, now not I, but Christ liveth in me." (Gal. 2:20).
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Conversion is the radical turn from an enslaved life of pursuing sin to a free life of pursuing and worshiping God. Conversion is a change of life, not merely a decision.
— Thabiti M. Anyabwile
A healthy church member works to make sure that he himself is converted, but he also works to make sure that his evangelistic efforts are informed by a biblical understanding of conversion.
— Thabiti M. Anyabwile
The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.
— Theodore Roosevelt
As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.
— Thomas a Kempis
As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man. When a man begins to grow lax, he fears a little toil and welcomes external comfort, but when he begins perfectly to conquer himself and to walk bravely in the ways of God, then he thinks those things less difficult which he thought so hard before.
— Thomas a Kempis
Repentance is a change of the mind, and regeneration is a change of the man.
— Thomas Adams