J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes About Resurrection

Quotes about: Resurrection

• The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Jesus, Mean, One Day

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

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Joy, Stories, Resurrection

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.388, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Christian, Lost Love, Fairy Stories

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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