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Quotes About Resurrection

The Giant, once well buried, now stirs.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
You're telling me that you can raise the dead by simply summoning? Yes. My God, she whispered, staring at me.What have they done? Hearing her words and seeing her expression, I knew I'd just done something worse than raising the dead-- I'd confirmed her worst fears about us. In her eyes, I saw the same thing I saw when people looked at Derek. I saw fear. And I knew we were in trouble.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Wish all my corpses would do that.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Mom isn't here," Corey said. "Neither is Travis. So much for my grand resurrection." He slumped onto the sofa. "We'll have to wait for them. Which is a little anticlimactic.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I'm fine," he said. "Just a little woozy. Must not have gone in deep enough." I scanned the ridge, and I caught a flicker of light reflecting off metal. "Sharpshooter," I whispered. "But you can't do that with tranq darts." "These people can resurrect extinct supernatural races, Maya," Daniel whispered. "I think their technology goes a little beyond the norm.
~ Kelley Armstrong
When Jesus died, we died with Him. When He was buried, we were buried with Him. When He arose, we arose with Him. And when He ascended, we ascended with Him!
~ Kelley Varner
We are made for the same home and power that raised Christ from the dead.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different.
~ Michael Gungor
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
[A]ll will be raised by the power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood.
~ Sam Smith
I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.
~ Timothy Radcliffe
The relationship between the obedience of Gods people and the triumph of Gods cause is not a relationship of cause and effect but one of cross and resurrection.
~ John Howard Yoder
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit.
~ William Shakespeare
The significance of suffering...is this, that the devastation it brings to the old creation provides an opportunity for the God of resurrection to impart Himself into His creatures so that they emerge from the death process with a divine element in their constitution.
~ Witness Lee
Through the Lord's death His blood enacted the new covenant; by the Lord's resurrection He became the new covenant with all its bequests (Isa. 42:6; 49:8); and in the Lord's ascension He is the Mediator, the Executor, of the new covenant (Heb. 8:6; 9:15; 12:24) and the surety of the new covenant, the pledge that everything in the new covenant will be fulfilled (7:22):
~ Witness Lee
Our need is to see that our God today has passed through the process of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, and enthronement to become the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit for us to drink. He is such a compound Spirit, and we have a spirit with which to drink of Him. In spirit we are one with Him. If we see this vision, the focal point of the divine revelation in the Bible, we shall know how to drink the Lord as the water of life. (Life-study of Exodus, pp. 515-518)
~ Witness Lee
Giorni miei Solo a sera m'è dato assistere alla deposizione della luce, quando la vita, ormai senza rimedio, è perduta. Mio convoglio funebre di ogni notte: emigrazione di sensi, accorgimenti delle ore tradite, intanto che lo spirito è rapito sotto l'acutissimo arco dell'esistenza: l'accompagna una musica di indicibile silenzio. Invece dovere ogni mattina risorgere sognare sempre impossibili itinerari.
~ David Maria Turoldo
Rejoice, heavenly powers! Sing, choirs of angels! Exalt, all creation around God's throne! Jesus Christ, our King, is risen! Sound the trumpet of salvation! Rejoice, O Earth, in shining splendor, Radiant in the brightness of your King! Christ has conquered! Glory fills you! Darkness vanishes for ever! Amen. —EXSULTET (6TH C.)
~ David P. Gushee
This is to affirm that since the resurrection and ascension of Jesus, he is present bodily in the world through his people.
~ David P. Gushee
That was the only sign he ever promised to give the Jews. They were always asking for miracles and signs. He said, "I'll give you no sign but the sign of Jonah, three days and three nights in the belly of the earth and then resurrection" – that is the proof of the Son of God's authority to cleanse his temple.
~ David Pawson
It is the ultimate game-changer. If the resurrection is true, then everything has changed. As Jaroslav Pelikan once said, 'If Jesus Christ rose from the dead, nothing else matters. If Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead, nothing else matters.
~ David Robertson
When Nietzsche said, "God is dead", he himself immediately replaced God with a new God, the Superman. Who would bother with Nietzsche's philosophy if he pronounced God dead and then hanged himself? Nietzsche immediately resurrected God, hence God was never dead. God is always ready to be re-expressed. It's not the concept of God that's wrong, it's the concept of the wrong God, wrongly defined and understood.
~ David Sinclair
Oh, bother!," said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead.
~ David Weber
In the silence that follows a great line you can feel Lazarus deep inside even the laziest, most deathly afraid part of you, lift up his hands and walk toward the light.
~ David Whyte