Resurrection Quotations

You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.

Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.

The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.

Hope is a gift of the Spirit. It is a hope that through the Atonement of Jesus Christ and the power of His Resurrection, we shall be raised unto life eternal and this because of our faith in the Savior.

All of nature is resurrection.

Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection ...

There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.

Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says

The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not take place, then Christianity is a false religion. If it did take place, then Christ is God and the Christian faith is absolute truth.

Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.

As for me, my charter is Jesus Christ, the inviolable charter is His cross and His death and resurrection, and faith through Him.

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.

... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more ductile material than meaning... It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself.

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.

The same power that brought Christ back from the dead is operative within those who are Christ’s. The Resurrection is an ongoing thing.

It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.

Meditation is a death - death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you.

Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’

Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.

In the New Testament outside the Gospels and the beginning of Acts, again and again, the fact of Jesus' resurrection is closely linked to our own ultimate resurrection, which isn't life after death - it's life after life after death.

Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.

We live and die; Christ died and lived!

Jesus never said anything about homosexuality.

It is love that believes the resurrection.

However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history.

Christ is risen from the dead!

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection.

Resurrection is a belief and hope in restoring this world.

The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.

Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.

JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.

The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

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

Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!

Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed.

A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.

...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I, and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

Everything in nature is resurrection.