Lazarus Quotes

• The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change men’s lives. As he said to the dead Lazarus, so he says to you and me: “come forth.” Come forth from the despair of doubt. Come forth from the sorrow of sin. Come forth from the death of disbelief. Come forth to a newness of life. Come forth.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Men, Doubt, Sorrow

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• In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Return, Impossible, Impossibility

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.25, Regnery Publishing

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• we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Punishment, Sin

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.159, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.

  Sid Waddell

  Comeback, Darts

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• Does God care if I'm sad? Look at the tear-streaked face of Jesus as he stands near Lazarus's tomb.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Tears, Doe

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Four, Sin

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• But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, and a few years later, Lazarus died again. Jesus healed the sick, but eventually caught some other disease. He fed the ten thousands, and the next day they were hungry again. But we remember his love. It wasn't that Jesus healed a leper but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Years, Next Day

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

  Annie Dillard

  Journey, Self, Years

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• It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

  Sara Zarr

  Thinking, Waiting, Miracle

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• I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Jesus, Believe, Graves

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• Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in. Lazarus obeying orders and climbing up out of the grave - now there's a miracle, and you can bet it upset a lot of folks who were standing around at the time. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of the earth.

  Leif Enger

  Pain, Real, Climbing Up

  Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

  Mark Twain

  Daughter, People, Luck

  Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1971). “Mark Twain's notebook”, Scholarly Pr

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• The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Children, Miracle

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• There may be different channels of approach, yes. For not all peoples walked in the field when the wheat was ripe. Neither did all stand at the tomb when Lazarus was called forth. Neither were they all present when He walked on the water, nor when He fed the five thousand, nor when He hung on the Cross. Yet each experience answered, and does answer to something within each individual soul-entity. For each soul is a corpuscle in the body of God.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Water, Soul

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• The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.

  Austin O'Malley

  Age, Sun, Passionate

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• The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus.

  Annie Dillard

  Hay, Tomatoes, Cain

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• Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. -Lazarus to his mother.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Mother, Heart, Engraved

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• How can it be other than right to worship the Body of the Lord, all-holy and all-reverend as it is, announced as it was by the archangel Gabriel, formed by the Holy Spirit, and made the Vesture of the Word? It was at any rate a bodily hand that the Word stretched out to raise her that was sick of a fever (Mk. 1:31): a human voice that He uttered to raise Lazarus - the dead (Jn. 11:43); and, once again, stretching out His hands upon the Cross, He overthrew the prince of the power of the air, that now works (Eph. 2:2) in the sons of disobedience, and made the way clear for us into the heavens.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Son, Hands

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• The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heaven, Mind, Rags

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1990). “The Quotable Spurgeon”, Shaw

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• Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth."

  David Bowie

  Men, Elephants, Musical

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The commemoration of Christ's saving Passion is at hand, and the new, great spiritual Passover, which is the reward for dispassion and the prelude of the world to come. Lazarus proclaims it in advance by coming back from the depths of Hades and rising from the dead on the fourth day just by voice and command of God, Who has power over life and death (cf. Jn. 11:1-45).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Spiritual, Passion

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God’s will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abraham’s bosom, or be a chariot of fire to carry an Elijah home.

  John Newton

  Lying, Angel, Home

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• If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Long, Ifs

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• A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If he cried over Jerusalem, if he cried over the death of Lazarus, surely he was crying now over the death of her dreams, the death of her marriage.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Dream, Jesus, Mind

  Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley (2010). “Redemption”, p.68, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Long, People

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