Resurrection Quotes - Page 21

• There is always new life trying to emerge in each of us. Too often we ignore the signs of resurrection and cling to part of life that have died for us.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Growth, Trying, New Life

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• Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Principles, This Life

  Joseph Smith (Jr.) (1876). “The Doctrine and Covenants: Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Containing the Revelations”, p.421

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• Hollywood is the only place on earth that has more vampires, more undead, more resurrections than a month of Easter Sundays.

  Roseanne Barr

  Easter, Sunday, Vampire

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• Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world. Because the actual existing church has reduced the Crucifixion and Resurrection to religious affirmations held by a certain tribe, rather than expressions of a type of life, the event they testify to has been almost completely eclipsed.

  Peter Rollins

  Religious, Expression, Church

  Peter Rollins (2015). “The Divine Magician: The Disappearance of Religion and the Discovery of Faith”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.

  Charles Stanley

  Jesus, Church, Ascension

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• But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Dust, Blood

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: A New Translation with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.191

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• The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes the form of a death defying love. Resurrection is ever present, constantly accosting us, challenging us, stretching us, cracking us open and seeking to have its way with us in order that we might come to maturity in Christ.

  Frank Griswold

  Maturity, Past, Order

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• Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies, That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife That with moist tears embraces her prone lord. Thou mist intensified; thou double dew That drowns the drought, that heals the parched and burnt -- Thou resurrection rain.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Rain, Sky, Wife

  William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”

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• The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.

  Timothy Keller

  Earth, Faces, Christianity

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• The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be regarded as the source of light and warmth, happiness and glory, the west was associated with darkness and chill, decay and death. This led to the custom of burying the dead so as to face the east when they rose again, and of building temples and shrines with an opening toward the east. To effect this, Vitruvius, two thousand years ago, gave precise rules, which are still followed by Christian architects.

  Isaac Newton

  Christian, Light, Years

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• All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Roots, Faithful

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• Christ, as the ultimate Imago Dei is alluded to in scripture as being without external beauty in the Classical sense, and should better be thought of as one who passed through all the slime and mire of a fallen and sinful creation in order to redeem it. His own body is to be remembered for the marks it bears-even in resurrection-of the scars of his sacrificial death. For the Christian, a theory of beauty might better begin at this point.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Christian, Order

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• The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Death, Character, Graves

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• No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

  Joyce Cary

  Bored, Doubt, Treasure

  Joyce Cary (1958). “First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth”

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• Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the other person hurt will you have any chance of actually bringing about change, reconciliation, and healing. You have to submit to the costly suffering and death of forgiveness if there is going to be any resurrection.

  Timothy Keller

  Wise, Hurt, Healing

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• He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of which Borges is the fabulist. He is no reader who has not heard, in his inward ear, the call of the hundreds of thousands, of the millions of volumes which stand in the stacks of the British Library asking to be read. For there is in each book a gamble against oblivion, a wager against silence, which can be won only when the book is opened again (but in contrast to man, the book can wait centuries for the hazard of resurrection.)

  George Steiner

  Book, Night, Men

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• I stand before you a weekend version of your reflection begging for direction, for my soul needs resurrection.

  DMX

  Friendship, Reflection, Weekend

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• The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Women, Home, Responsibility

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• In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep (Jn 21:15-19), down to the present episcopate.

  Saint Augustine

  Sheep, Miracle, Catholic

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.1259, Aeterna Press

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• The resurrection stands related to righteousness in the same way that death stands related to sin.

  Geerhardus Vos

  Way, Sin, Righteousness

  Geerhardus Vos (2015). “Grace and Glory”, p.92, Booklassic

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• The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also.... In the frail and perishable body that divine Host, which is the immortal body of Christ, implants a principle of resurrection, a seed of immortality, which one day must germinate

  Pope Leo XIII

  Soul, One Day, Principles

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.347, TAN Books

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• The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life

  Pope Leo XIII

  Blessed, Mean, Century

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• Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.

  Lord Byron

  Lying, Loss, Past

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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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• Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Believe, Iran

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.128, Soft Skull Press

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