Resurrection Quotes - Page 18

• In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death to immortality, There is no pain of any creature from the beginning to the end of time which was not 'known' at this point and thus transmuted. To know all things in the Word is thus to know all the suffering of the world transfigured by the resurrection, somehow reconciled and atoned in eternal life. It was God's purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things on heaven and things on earth'.

  Bede Griffiths

  Spiritual, Pain, Agony

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

  Barbara Mertz

  Spring, Promise, False Promises

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• So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins (in his death), then conquer death (in his resurrection) and then enter his people (by his Spirit), he is uniquely able to save sinners. Nobody else has his qualifications.

  John Stott

  Jesus, People, Able

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• The LDS Church teaches that Christ's atoning sacrifice enables the resurrection of all human beings and provides an opportunity for individuals to progress toward exaltation, meaning a higher level of glory within the celestial kingdom. Only those individuals who make and keep covenants with God on earth - beginning with baptism but also including additional ordinances - will be exalted into the presence of God and their savior for eternity.

  John Turner

  Sacrifice, Opportunity, Baptism

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Hell is to be contemplated strictly as a matter which concerns me alone. As part of the spiritual life it belongs behind the 'closed door' of my own room. From the standpoint of living faith, I cannot fundamentally believe in anyone's damnation but my own; as far as my neighbor is concerned, the light of resurrection can never be so obscured that I would be allowed or obliged to stop hoping for him.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Spiritual, Believe, Doors

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1986). “Prayer”, p.266, Ignatius Press

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• I still believe in the power of forgiveness. I believe in the power of redemption. Today I manned up and tried to accept responsibility for the errors of my ways. And I still believe in the resurrection.

  Jesse Jackson, Jr.

  Believe, Responsibility, Errors

  "Jesse Jackson Jr. going to prison; says he 'manned up'" by Dan Merica, Larry Lazo and Leslie Bentz, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2013.

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• Zagreus was the son of Zeus. He was slain by the Titans, buried at the foot of Mount Parnassus, and rose from the dead as Dionysos. He was the god of fruit and wine. Like those of Christ his most devoted followers were women. He is the beloved son and occupies a throne at the right hand of his father, Zeus. His empty tomb at Delphi was long preserved by his devotees as proof of his death, and resurrection.

  John Remsburg

  Father, Wine, Son

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• If you have no share in the living Lord may God have mercy upon you! If you have no share in Christ's rising from the dead then you will not be raised up in the likeness of His glorified body. If you do not attain to that resurrection from among the dead then you must abide in death.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Body, May

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2009). “Sermons on the Last Days”, p.179, Hendrickson Publishers

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• We Christians do not believe that Jesus Christ was the only one that ever rose from the dead. We believe that every death-bed is a resurrection; that from every grave the stone, is rolled away.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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• The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He's risen!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Life Changing, Breathing, Evil

  Charles R. Swindoll (2009). “Jesus: The Greatest Life of All”, p.244, Thomas Nelson

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• Nature religions, for example, speak of summer, fall, winter, and spring. They see the downward path as the necessary prelude to any kind of upward path again. Our vocabulary is different. We Christians speak of the death and resurrection of Jesus. But unfortunately, we've projected it all onto Jesus and it didn't become a life agenda for the rest of us.

  Richard Rohr

  Summer, Christian, Jesus

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy, in peace, and in generosity. For these things, these are not mere words, but acts, which go all the way, right up to their last breath. Even their death is a gift, and resurrection is born from this kind of death. (157)

  Jean Leloup

  Christian, Buddhist, Peace

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• The world is not looking for more doctrinal proof of the reality of God! It is not looking for greater proof of the resurrection or better arguments about creation. The world is looking for Christians who can stand up to every crisis, fear, trouble and difficulty and remain calm and at rest in the midst of it all. The world needs to see God's children trusting wholly in their Lord.

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, Children, Reality

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• Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham even to death! Why not die for nothing? Why dislike torture and whipping inflicted for no good reason? Let us go out to all nations and overthrow their institutions and denounce their gods! And even if we don't convince anybody, at least we'll have the satisfaction of drawing down on ourselves the punishment for out own deceit.

  Eusebius

  Drawing, Punishment, Miracle

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• It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Jesus, Views, World

  Lesslie Newbigin (2011). “Honest Religion for Secular Man”, p.53, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Jesus Christ was the only one capable of performing the magnificent Atonement because He was the only perfect man and the Only Begotten Son of God the Father. He received His commission for this essential work from His Father before the world was established. His perfect mortal life devoid of sin, the shedding of His blood, His suffering in the garden and upon the cross, His voluntary death, and the Resurrection of His body from the tomb made possible a full Atonement for people of every generation and time.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• The fact of resurrection is not extraordinary; it is in accord with what we who believe at all believe to be the uniform law of life--that death does not touch it. The witnesses to the resurrection of Christ were unprejudiced, unexpectant, incredulous, and their honesty is not doubted even by skeptical criticism.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Honesty, Believe

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• What makes our marriage holy, what makes it "set apart" and sacramental, isn't the marriage certificate filed away in the basement or the degree to which we follow a list of rules and roles, it's the way God shows up in those everyday moments - loading the dishwasher, sharing a joke, hosting a meal, enduring an illness, working through a disagreement - and gives us the chance to notice, to pay attention to the divine. It's the way the God of resurrection makes all things new.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Giving, Everyday, Roles

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

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• Your greatest need is not a spouse. Your greatest need is to be delivered from the wrath of God - and that has already been accomplished for you through the death and resurrection of Christ. So why doubt that God will provide a much, much lesser need? Trust His sovereignty, trust His wisdom, trust His love.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Wrath, Doubt, Needs

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• I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of our time and history, the tremendous loss and tragedy as well as greatness and nobility, an imagination capable of recognizing that where there is light there is shadow, that out of hubris and fall can come moral regeneration, out of suffering and death, resurrection and rebirth.

  Richard Tarnas

  Believe, Fall, Loss

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• 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.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Facts, Life After Death

  "Trevin Wax Interview with N.T. Wright". www.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I feel that the whole Western World will benefit by the resurrection of the neutron bomb project.

  Ronald Reagan

  Bombs, Benefits, World

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• 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.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Courses, Originals

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• Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Born, Remains

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