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Quotes About Resurrection

So this intense desire uttered itself in the dromenon of his resurrection.
~ Jane Ellen Harrison
He must live again, he should, he did.
~ Jane Ellen Harrison
The worse thing that can happen to anyone, worse than death itself, and the worst thing one can make others do, is to return from the place from which no one returns, to come back to life at the wrong time, when you are no longer expected, when it's too late and inappropriate, when the living have assumed you are over and done with and have continued or taken up their lives again, leaving no room for you at all.
~ Javier Marías
Without Christ, we're in Satan's grip. But because of His great love for us, Jesus shed His blood and died to redeem us from our sins, giving us full forgiveness. He rose
~ Dr. David Jeremiah
from the dead, ascended to heaven, and resumed His position of supreme authority. When we believe and receive His good news, He instantly conveys us into His family and into His kingdom. That is the triumph of the gospel—the victory of Jesus on our behalf.
~ Dr. David Jeremiah
The 90-degree turn is crucial to understanding how to make resurrection or ascension real. The dimensional levels are separated by 90 degrees, musical notes are separated by 90 degrees, and the chakras are separated by 90 degrees — 90 degrees keeps coming up over and over again. In fact, in order for us to enter into the fourth dimension (or any dimension, for that matter), we must make a 90-degree turn.
~ Drunvalo Melchizedek
Like Abraham you will believe, like Sarah you will conceive, and like Moses you will rise from your isolation and exile. You will live again. God is determined to reverse your tragedy into transformation and crown your tomb with the testimony of a glorious resurrection. From
~ Dutch Sheets
The way of the cross is a complete reversal. It means that the worst thing in your life, your cross, turns into the best thing that ever happened to you, by forcing you into surrender, into "death," forcing you to become as nothing, to become as God — because God, too, is no-thing.
~ Eckhart Tolle
When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward a simple, bold obedience.
~ Edward T. Welch
This was Paul's joy in suffering and shame: "that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead" (Philippians 3:10–11). Notice how this affects your shameful past. It will still hurt at times, but shame will lose its power. The very event that made you an outcast is the one that gives you insight into the mind of Christ.
~ Edward T. Welch
And did the biblical Lazarus have a mother? What did she do when he was resurrected? Did he bid her good-bye before he returned to his undeath? Was he the same son to her undead as he was alive? I read that he sailed to Marseilles with his sisters afterward, where he may or may not have died again.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.
~ Alessandro Baricco
This kind of growth is already having a beneficial impact on numerous industries associated with energy... U.S. Steel, for instance, has struggled in recent decades, undercut by Asian producers and unable to respond creatively, and saw its stock price drop nearly 90 percent. But today it is in the midst of a Phoenix-like resurrection.(58)
~ Alex Prud'Homme
To such effect did the Son of man claim to be Lord of the Sabbath-day; and His claim, so understood, was acknowledged by the church, when, following the traces of the apostolic usage, she changed the weekly rest from the seventh day to the first, that it might commemorate the joyful event of the resurrection of the Saviour, which lay nearer the heart of a believer than the old event of the creation, and called the first day by His name, the Lord's day.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
Specially remarkable is the first thought to which He gave utterance in these words: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
the nearing resurrection Of dreary, melancholy days…
~ Alexander Blok
For the Gospel is not only a "record" of Christ's resurrection; the Word of God is the eternal coming to us of the Risen Lord, the very power and joy of the resurrection.
~ Alexander Schmemann
The great thing for me about 'The Resurrection of Gavin Stone' is it's a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn't call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies.
~ D. B. Sweeney
To the contrary" is what the head of the mine workers' union said when he was asked whether he had ordered the murder of a rival and his family. It is hard to know what to the contrary of ordering a murder might, exactly, mean. Jim thinks ordering a birth, perhaps, or else a resurrection.
~ Renata Adler
The question that Luke-Acts puts to the church—then and now—is not "Are you reforming society?" but rather "Is the power of the resurrection at work among you?
~ Richard B. Hays
The church embodies the power of the resurrection in the midst of a not-yet-redeemed world.
~ Richard B. Hays
The New Testament has a normative role in Christian theology and ethics that is different from the Old Testament's role. We do not have a simple, undifferentiated canon running from Genesis to Revelation. The claim that Jesus' death and resurrection is the central decisive act of God for the salvation of humankind means that the cross becomes the hermeneutical center for the canon as a whole. Thus, within the canon the New Testament has a privileged hermeneutical function.
~ Richard B. Hays
O let us not be as the purblind world, that cannot see afar off ; let us never look at the grave, but let us see the resurrection beyond it(42).
~ Richard Baxter
Dying is easy. Anyone can do it. Living is the problem – Lazarus has been brought back to life and he can't explain himself.
~ Richard Beard