Quotes related to 2 Corinthians 5:17
God not only initiated my salvation, He not only sowed the seed, but He made sure that that seed germinated in my heart by regenerating me by the power of the Holy Ghost.
— RC Sproul
Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which He opens the door and enters by, but He comes with a Spirit of life and power.
— John Owen
Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people's lives and change and lift them up.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Things aren't what they used to be and probably never were.
— Will Rogers
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
— Will Rogers
He will be the cause whereby many will rise. Long ago Seneca said that what people needed above all was a hand let down to lift them up. It is the hand of Jesus which lifts us out of the old life and into the new, out of the sin into the goodness, out of the shame into the glory.
— William Barclay
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
— William Golding
If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
— William Hazlitt
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
— William James
Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.
— William James
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
— William James
There is no standing still, Life goes on, and is always bringing forth its Realities, which Way soever it goeth.
— William Law