Resurrection famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
-- Adam Clarke -
We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.
-- Alan Autry -
Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
-- Alfred Noyes -
If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says
-- Andy Stanley -
The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.
-- Beth Moore -
There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.
-- Bill Vaughan -
The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.
-- Billy Graham -
Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.
-- Billy Graham -
There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.
-- Brooke Westcott -
The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
-- Camille Paglia -
The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.
-- Edward McKendree Bounds -
The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
-- Elayne Boosler -
An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be "reborn" to be anything but what I am. And so in the Christian life. I must be born anew. That is why Christ took me with Himself down into the grave and brought me forth a "new creation." He terminated my old life when there upon the Cross as Representative He died; and He imparted to me a new life when He arose from the grave.
-- F. Huegel -
Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.
-- Frederick Buechner -
The cross of the Cruxifixion without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity.
-- Frederick Franck -
The resurrection stands related to righteousness in the same way that death stands related to sin.
-- Geerhardus Vos -
Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith.
-- George Carey -
Death used to be an executioner, but the resurrection of Christ makes him nothing but a gardener. When he tries to bury you, he's really planting you, and you're going to come up better than before.
-- George Herbert -
Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.
-- Hans Urs von Balthasar -
The past is dead, and has no resurrection.
-- Henry Kirke White -
The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not take place, then Christianity is a false religion. If it did take place, then Christ is God and the Christian faith is absolute truth.
-- Henry M. Morris -
As for me, my charter is Jesus Christ, the inviolable charter is His cross and His death and resurrection, and faith through Him.
-- Ignatius of Antioch -
Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.
-- Ingrid Bengis -
Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.
-- J. D. Greear -
Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.
-- John Climacus -
Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.
-- John Flavel -
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
-- John Ortberg -
I know pretty well what evidence is, and I tell you, such evidence as that for the resurrection has never broken down yet.
-- John Singleton Copley -
One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.
-- Jon Meacham -
Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.
-- Josh McDowell -
The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.
-- Josh McDowell -
Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.
-- Joshua L. Goldberg -
The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.
-- Kay Ryan -
The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.
-- Kenneth Scott Latourette -
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
-- Langston Hughes -
The same power that brought Christ back from the dead is operative within those who are Christ’s. The Resurrection is an ongoing thing.
-- Leon Morris -
You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.
-- Liberace -
However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.
-- Luther Burbank -
If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get a celestial resurrection.
-- Mark E. Petersen -
the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project.
-- N. T. Wright -
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
-- Octavio Paz -
Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things.
-- Ole Hallesby -
I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.
-- Oscar Romero -
Jesus never said anything about homosexuality.
-- Patricia Ireland -
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
-- Paul Eldridge -
The atonement, or forgiveness of sin once and for all achieved on the cross, weighs in, and heavily. But the atonement is confirmed, ratified, sealed, and made enduringly good by virtue of Christ's rising from death. Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.
-- Paul F. M. Zahl -
If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
-- Paul Ricoeur -
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.
-- Paul Ricoeur -
I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.
-- Peter Jennings -
I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice
-- Peter Rollins -
Resurrection , like politics , makes strange bedfellows.
-- Philip Jose Farmer -
The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life
-- Pope Leo XIII -
It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.
-- Ravi Zacharias -
The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.
-- Richard Rohr -
Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.
-- Robert M. Price -
The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection.
-- Thomas Chalmers -
The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
-- Timothy Keller -
I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.
-- Timothy Radcliffe -
The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.
-- Timothy Radcliffe -
If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection.
-- Umar -
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
-- Voltaire -
The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
-- Watchman Nee -
Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
-- Watchman Nee -
The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon -
Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
-- Whittaker Chambers -
If you're wondering where the Lord is, At this very hour, I tell you he's alive and well, With resurrection power!..
-- Carman -
The Christ of Bethlehem is the Christ of Galilee, is the Christ of the Crucifixion, is the Christ of the Resurrection, is the Christ of the Eucharist
-- John Joseph O'Connor -
The resurrection is God's way of getting our attention.
-- Peter J. Gomes
