Quotes About Resurrection

death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life." (Rom. 6:4; cf. 2 Cor. 12:18)

God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt.

Death indeed will terminate my story, but it will not conclude it; for it will make all my hopes into might-have-beens and my fears into never-minds, and so make absurd the anticipatory coherences by which I have lived. if I am to have a conclusion, it will have to be a resurection.

Es lo que la gente bestia no comprende. Los han asesinado a los dioses. Pero día vendrá que bajo el sol correrán por los caminos gritando: «Lo queremos a Dios, lo necesitamos a Dios». ¡Qué bárbaros! Yo no me explico cómo lo han podido asesinar a Dios. Pero nosotros los resucitaremos... inventaremos unos dioses hermosos... supercivilizados... ¡y qué otra cosa será entonces la vida!

It is a "terrible trivialization," Crossan writes, "to imagine that all Jesus' followers lost their faith on Good Friday and had it restored by apparitions on Easter Sunday.

King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.

Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.

Mételo en el horno y quizá reviva con el calor.

We are told in Ephesians 1:19-20 that the church is built on the foundation of Christ's resurrection, meaning that the church could not have existed in Old Testament times.

I have never quite managed to see how we can make sense of the sacramental life of the Church without a theology of the risen body; and I have never managed to see how to put together such a theology without belief in the empty tomb. If a corpse clearly marked 'Jesus of Nazareth' turned up, I should save myself a lot of trouble and become a Quaker.

Only the body saves the soul.

And doesn't everything die and return; the grass, the trees, the fields? Why not us?

Even death is going to die!

To be born again, first you have to die.

To be born again, sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, first you have to die.

Until Jesus comes, his resurrection glory in the church is a matter of strength made perfect in suffering.

Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.

Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.

ma io, tradito, assassinato, gettato a mia volta in una tomba, ne sono uscito per grazia di Dio, e devo a Dio la mia vendetta: per questo mi manda, e sono qui.

Following Jesus might take us into dark, lonely places where we can't see any light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, scary as it may be, resurrection is not about God coming in the nick of time to save the day but about God coming after the corpse is dead and buried. Sometimes God reaches in only when the darkness has gotten pitch black and then shows his resurrection power to bring good in the midst of evil and pain.

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

The Crucifixion, Atonement, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ mark the beginning of a Christian Life, not the end of it.

I choose to believe that the same God who intervened to bring his Son back to life intervened on this day in history to help his people.

Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.