Quotes related to 2 Corinthians 5:17
My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless.
— John Bunyan
It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.
— John Bunyan
The whole life of man until he is converted to Christ is a ruinous labyrinth of wanderings.
— John Calvin
Ps. 126:1). God has done a stupendous and incredible work in us who bear Christ's name.
— John Calvin
Let, therefore, everyone who has shared in all the benefits which Christ has conferred upon us know that his whole life ought to conform to the death of Christ.
— John Calvin
The fact that the outer man decays from day to day does not hurt the believers' true Life. It even helps its growth, because the inner
— John Calvin
No one truly belongs to the church and is counted among God's children, unless he first becomes a new man.
— John Calvin
Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for, you As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow mee, 'and bend Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new.
— John Donne
when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again, for that library where every book shall lie open to one another;
— John Donne
Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore My love was infinite, if spring makes it more.
— John Donne
Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life, and eternity. (Elegie III: Change)
— John Donne
Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.
— William Law