Quotes related to 2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, so long as we live in this fallen world, we are simul iustus et peccator (saint and sinner simultaneously), until the destruction of the old Adam is completed as God makes all things new (Rev. 21:5; Isa. 42:9; 43:19; Gal. 6:15).
— Fleming Rutledge
It is God's new creative act, his great reclamation project that is even greater than the creation itself, because whereas we are "wonderfully created," we are "yet more wonderfully restored."
— Fleming Rutledge
God's justification of sinners is not a forgetting, nor is it simply forgiveness. It is a definitive, wholesale, final assault upon and defeat of Sin, understood as a Power, and the creation of a new humanity.
— Fleming Rutledge
Reflect the new way of seeing: the human situation is so tragic that there is no answer from within history. The Christ event is therefore the invasion of this world by Another, who is retaking for himself the world he created.
— Fleming Rutledge
At 26 or 27, I was fatter than anyone.
— Carlos Tevez
I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?
— Jonathan Evison
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
— Ambrose of Milan
Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.
— John Eldredge
Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ's modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you - it should.
— Ezra Taft Benson
You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.
— Robert Schuller
Do not force me to look any longer at what I have become. Tell me instead what is to come.
— Robin Jones Gunn
He knew that an existing structure had to be torn down or at least restructured before anything new and lasting could be built on the same foundation
— Robin Jones Gunn