Resurrection Quotes

• If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Life Changing, Teaching

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.210, Penguin

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• Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

  Martin Luther

  Friday, Spiritual, Jesus

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• I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.

  Charles Colson

  Jesus, Truth, Powerful

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

  Frederick Buechner

  Mean, Lasts, Worst

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• Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.

  Watchman Nee

  Easter, Crosses, Ends

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.37, CLC Publications

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• The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates Christianity above all other world religions.

  Adrian Rogers

  Christian, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, World Religions

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

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Jesus, Mean, One Day

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• The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip; Our grief over those who have gone on is diminished; Our desires to press on in spite of the obstacles is rejuvenated... Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!'

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Easter, Grief

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• The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Father, Way

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2017

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• The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

  Timothy Keller

  Missing, Way, Paid In Full

  Timothy Keller (2011). “King's Cross: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• The evidence for Jesus' resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things: First, it is a very unusual event. And second, if you believe it happened, you have to change the way you live.

  Wolfhart Pannenberg

  Religious, Jesus, Strong

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• God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

  Billy Graham

  Love, Christian, Easter

  Twitter post from Apr 05, 2015

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

  Karl Barth

  Jesus, Boulders, Pool

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• Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

  Billy Graham

  Crosses, Meaningless

  Twitter post from Apr 02, 2015

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• The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life Changing, Events, Facts

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 15: Sermons 848 to 907”, p.249, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Religious, Jesus, Matter

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• The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Easter, World

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

  John Stott

  Jesus, Transformation, Evidence

  John Stott, Rick Warren (2012). “Basic Christianity, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition”, p.70, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• 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.

  Richard Rohr

  Doe, Return, Crosses

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• And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

  Saint Augustine

  Easter, Heart, Sight

  "Confessions".

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• Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.

  John Stott

  Lying, Heart, Essence

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• This is the gospel. The just and loving Creator of the universe has looked upon hopelessly sinful people and sent His Son, God in the flesh, to bear His wrath against sin on the cross and to show His power over sin in the resurrection so that all who trust in Him will be reconciled to God forever.

  David Platt

  Son, Wrath, People

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• The resurrection is the revelation to chosen witnesses of the fact that Jesus who died on the cross is indeed king - conqueror of death and sin, Lord and Savior of all. The resurrection is not the reversal of a defeat but the proclamation of a victory. The King reigns from the tree. The reign of God has indeed come upon us, and its sign is not a golden throne but a wooden cross.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Jesus, Kings, Tree

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• We live and die; Christ died and lived!

  John Stott

  Easter, Life Changing, Sunday

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• Had He not emerged from the tomb all our hopes, all our salvation would be lying dead with Him unto this day. But as we see Him issue from the grave we see ourselves issue with Him in newness of life. Now we know that His shoulders were strong enough to bear the burden that was laid upon them, and that He is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God through Him. The resurrection of Christ is thus the indispensable evidence of His completed work, His accomplished redemption.

  B. B. Warfield

  Strong, Easter, Lying

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