I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.
—Henry Ford
The sun is new each day.
—Heraclitus
Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities, infused by the Spirit into the soul, which are the principles of all holy actions.
—John Flavel
Today we do not feel quite sure of our new set of beliefs, and the old ones still exist within us.
—Sigmund Freud
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
—Henry David Thoreau
Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
—Ernest Hemingway
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
—Immanuel Kant
There’s no salvation for a person who’s certain of his righteousness. If someone points out his sins he only gets angry and commits a new one.
—Leo Tolstoy
The teaching of the New Testament is that God and spiritual things can be known finally only by a direct work of God within the soul. The true understanding of God must be by personal spiritual awareness. The Holy Spirit is indispensable.
—AW Tozer
God’s rest only means he has stopped creating new things. He is now actively working to preserve the world he fashioned.
—Herman Bavinck
The triune God produces all things in creation and new creation by His Word and Spirit. All things thus speak to us of God.
—Herman Bavinck
Enlightened by the Spirit, believers gain a new knowledge of faith. Salvation that is not known and enjoyed is no salvation. God saves by causing himself to be known and enjoyed in Christ.
—Herman Bavinck
Just as faith is the fruit of regeneration on the side of the mind, so repentance is the expression of new life on the side of the will.
—Herman Bavinck
Knowing God in Christ brings with it eternal life, imperturbable joy, and heavenly blessedness. These are not merely effects, but the knowing of God is itself immediately a new, eternal, and blessed life.
—Herman Bavinck
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
—Albert Einstein
The Holy Spirit can take a man whose mind is blind to the truth of God, whose will is at enmity with God, whose affections are corrupt and vile, and transform that man, impart to him a new nature, so that he thinks God’s thoughts, love what God loves, and hate what God hates.
—R. A. Torrey
I know that some of our knees are a bit old, but I still thought this interesting.
“Oftentimes, it helps us to a realization of the presence of God to read the Bible on our knees. The Bible became a new book to me when I took to reading it on my knees.”
—R. A. Torrey
Your body must be refined and cast into a new mold, else that new wine of heavenly glory would break it…. Who would not be willing to die for a full sight and enjoyment of God?
—John Flavel
It’s never too late for repentance. With God’s help we can chart a new course and set our sails in the direction of obedience to God.
Alistair Begg
The true reason why any despise *the new birth* is, because they hate *a new life*.
—John Owen
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
—Henry David Thoreau
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
—Nikolai Gogol
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
—Voltaire
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jesus Christ hath ‘consecrated a new and living way’ (for the saints) ‘through the vail, that is to say, his flesh,’ Heb 10:20. He hath consecrated and set it apart for believers, and for them alone.
—John Owen
Christ puts strength and a principle of new life into the weary soul that comes to him.
—Jonathan Edwards
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
—John Locke
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.
—Nikolai Gogol
If it’s not uncomfortable, it’s not a new idea.
—Peter R. Rose