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Quotes About Resurrection

At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.
~ John Ortberg
Holy Saturday is the time to remember family and the faithful who have died as we await the Resurrection, or to honour the martyrs who have given their lives to the cause of Christ in the world. Holy Saturday is a time for reflection and waiting, a time of weeping that lasts for the night while awaiting the joy that comes at Easter.
~ Unknown
Holy Saturday is a day to pray for those who walk among us as the living dead. Their hope is placed in all things other than Christ and, for them, death will be ultimate, final, and hopeless.
~ Unknown
And eventually, the choosing becomes easier, the darkness lifts, and walking in Jesus' way is not quite such a strugglefor a while. But the darkness will always return, often unexpectedly. That is why I need Lent, because it bears witness to the reality of darkness, of doubt, of fear, of pain. And it carries me through those real places, real experiences into one that is more fully and truly Real: the Reality of Resurrection, of Light, of Life.
~ Unknown
They asked 'do you love her to death?' I said 'speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
They asked, "do you love her to death?" I said, "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
they asked "do you love her to death? i said "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of [5]wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it will bring forth much fruit.
~ Unknown
They buried him, but all through the night of mourning, in the lighted windows, his books arranged three by three kept watch like angels with outspread wings and seemed for him who was no more; the symbol of his resurrection
~ Marcel Proust
The resurrection at our awakening-after that beneficent attack of mental alienation which is sleep-must after all be similar to what occurs when we recall a name, a line, a refrain that we had forgotten. And perhaps the resurrection of the soul after death is to be conceived as a phenomenon of memory.
~ Marcel Proust
eschatological thinking.
~ John Ortberg Jr.
Make no mistake: if he rose at all It was as His body; If the cell's dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit, The amino acids rekindle, The Church will fall.
~ John Updike
Every time I go look for God amidst sorrow, I always find Jesus at the cross, in death and resurrection. This is our God.
~ Nadia Bolz-Weber
What if we lived like Jesus really did rise from the dead?
~ Unknown
Repentance of spirit, resurrection of soul.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Her 'death' was the only way for her to live.
~ Unknown
Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.
~ John Knox
Because He lives, I can face tomorrow. Because He lives, all fear is gone.
~ Bill Gaither
He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised to life to make us right with God.
~ Unknown
A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.
~ Sun Tzu
A ressurreição ao despertar — após esse benéfico aspecto de alienação mental que é o sono — deve assemelhar-se no fundo ao que se passa quando encontramos um nome, um verso, um estribilho esquecido. E a ressurreição da alma após a morte talvez seja concebível como um fenômeno de memória.
~ Marcel Proust
And perhaps the resurrection of the soul after death is to be conceived as a phenomenon of memory.
~ Marcel Proust
The Incarnation of Christ raised the energy of everything. And when Hopkins placed his conviction of this into poetry, he tended to mention electricity, lightening, fire, flash, flame. He wrote in his late, great poem, "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and the comfort of the Resurrection": 'In a flash, at a trumpet crash, / I am all at once what Christ is, / since he was what I am and / This jack, joke, poor potsherd, / patch matchwood, immortal diamond, / Is immortal diamond.
~ Unknown
Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
~ T. D. Jakes