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Quotes About Resurrection

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?
~ John Clayton
God didn't come to fix anybody. He came to kill them and resurrect them from the dead.
~ John Crowder
The Greek is importantly different: "Jesus said to her, 'Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, "I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God
~ John Dominic Crossan
At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blowYour trumpets, angels, and arise, ariseFrom death, you numberless infinitiesOf souls.
~ John Donne
Death, thou shalt die.
~ John Donne
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more, death thou shalt die.
~ John Donne
First, I give my gracious God an entire sacrifice of body and soul, with my most humble thanks for that assurance which His Blessed Spirit imprints in me now of the Salvation of the one, and the Resurrection of the other;
~ John Donne
We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.
~ John Donne
O Lord, as one made so by thee, to think me fit for thee; and whether it be thy pleasure to dispose of this body, this garment, so as to put it to a farther wearing in this world, or to lay it up in the common wardrobe, the grave, for the next, glorify thyself in thy choice now, and glorify it then, with that glory, which thy Son, our Saviour Christ Jesus, hath purchased for them whom thou makest partakers of his resurrection. Amen.
~ John Donne
The trumpet shall be heard on highThe dead shall live, the living die,And Music shall untune the sky!
~ John Dryden
So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky
~ John Dryden
I think of the words of the prophet . . . : And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of Him, this is the testimony, last of all, that we give of Him: That He lives.
~ Loren C. Dunn
Be gone, sorrow, sickness, wheelchairs, and cancer! Enough of you, screams of fear and nights of horror! Death, you die! Life, you reign!
~ Max Lucado
The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.
~ Billy Graham
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
~ Dave Barry
Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.
~ Donatella Versace
All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.
~ Matt Chandler
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
~ John Ortberg
The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.
~ N. T. Wright
Resurrection means bodily life after 'life after death,' or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of 'death'
~ N. T. Wright
Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.
~ Anne Graham Lotz
What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.
~ C. S. Lewis
Lee both articulated and embodied. He was the sacrificial lamb, the Confederate Christ on the cross at Appomattox who then was resurrected by others in the spirit and the body politic. Before he died, he also became the soft-spoken but implacable foe of submission and conciliation.
~ Edward H. Bonekemper III
Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.
~ Edward Payson Rod