Quotes related to 2 Corinthians 5:17
Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.
— Joel Osteen
The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.
— AW Tozer
The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
— Anais Nin
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
— George Eliot
When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives.
— Steve Arterburn
He (Jesus) came so that we might receive new life through supernatural regeneration.
— David Platt
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.
— Donald Miller
We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.
— Paulo Coelho
God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it
— Jim Cymbala
All changes — ?spiritual revivals, a turnaround in a church, a barren life now bearing fruit — ?begin when there is a discontentment that says, "I refuse to accept this.
— Jim Cymbala
Only true faith in Jesus Christ as Savior, confirmed by the Holy Spirit living inside of us, makes us a new creation.
— Jim Cymbala