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Quotes About Resurrection

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.
~ Adrian Rogers
You cannot have the joy of Easter without the agony of Good Friday
~ Adriana Trigiani
You cannot have the joy of Easter Sunday without the agony of Good Friday," her mother reminded them. "No cross, no crown," she'd say in a dialect only her children understood.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Jesus never asked us to go on the cross with him and he did not die for your sins. That premise is faulty because Christ is deathless and you have no sins. Instead, he lives for your innocence. He is the model of a man who recognized his innate divinity, the same godliness you own. He does not want you to emulate his crucifixion. He wants you to magnify his resurrection. You don't need to experience crucifixion to gain resurrection. There are easier ways to get to heaven.
~ Alan Cohen
No es necesaria la crucifixión para lograr la resurrección. Hay formas más sencillas de alcanzar el cielo.
~ Alan Cohen
It was left to San'dwil to sum up the totality of the attempt. "So you can make the bodies live but cannot bring back consciousness." Wol'daeen gestured affirmatively. "It is most exasperating. The resurrected forms have all the appearance of life but none of the necessary cognitive functions.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Skulduggery Pleasant, Playing With Fire, The Faceless Ones, Dark Days, Mortal Coil, Death Bringer, Kingdom of the Wicked, Last Stand of Dead Men, The Dying of the Light, Resurrection, Midnight and Bedlam
~ Derek Landy
It is important to emphasize that the Gospel centers in the death and resurrection of Jesus. In 1 Corinthians 15:3–4 Paul sums up its message in three historical facts: "Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. . . . He was buried . . . He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.
~ Derek Prince
I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that there'd be no rest, there'd be no forgetting. Is like telling mourners round the graveside about resurrection, they want the dead back.
~ Derek Walcott
Nevertheless, it is the free grace of the resurrected One that now also goes after the individual, overcomes the doubter, and creates in him the Easter faith.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. They should remain open. Our only comfort is the God of the resurrection, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of God, no one has yet heard about the realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existence.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The world is not divided between Christ and the devil; it is completely the world of Christ, whether it recognizes this or not. As this reality in Christ it is to be addressed, and thus the false reality that it imagines itself to have, in itself or in the devil, is to be destroyed. The dark, evil world may not be surrendered to the devil, but must be claimed for the one who won it by coming in the flesh, by the death and resurrection of Christ.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The justification of my life before God is to live because of and toward the living, dying, and rising of Jesus Christ.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christ is not gloriously transported from earth into heaven. He must instead go to the cross. And precisely there, where the cross stands, the resurrection is near. Precisely here, where all lose faith in God, where all despair about the power of God, God is fully there, and Christ is alive and near.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Easter is not about immortality but about resurrection from a death that is a real death with all its frightfulness and horrors, resurrection from a death of the body and the soul, of the whole person, resurrection by the power of God's mighty act. This is the Easter message.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Our salvation is 'external to ourselves'. I find no salvation in my life history, but only in the history of Jesus Christ. Only he who allows himself to be found in Jesus Christ, in his incarnation, his Cross, and his resurrection, is with God and God with him.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
church must bear witness to Jesus Christ as living lord, and it must do so in a world that has turned away from Christ after knowing him.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Easter? Our attention falls more on dying than on death. How we deal with dying is more important to us than how we conquer death. Socrates overcame dying; Christ overcame death.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To live in the light of the resurrection - that is what Easter means
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
the only visible sign of God in the world is the cross.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
where the cross stands, the resurrection is near.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus Christ in his word must be our death and our life.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer