C. S. Lewis Quotes About Resurrection

• Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.

  C. S. Lewis

  Character, Eye, Vegetables

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

• The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Life Changing, Men

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Rose, Resurrection

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Soul, Would Be, Matter

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Ideas, Doctrine

• Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hero, Thinking, People

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

  C. S. Lewis

  Numbers, People, Firsts

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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