Risen Quotes - Page 7

• He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts.

  Markus Zusak

  Germany, Forests, Grows

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.444, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.

  John Green

  Eye, Sun, Losing

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.168, Penguin

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• I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost.

  John Green

  Believe, Eye, Thinking

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• Spring bursts today,
  For love is risen and all the earth's at play.

  Christina Rossetti

  Easter, Spring, Love Is

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• When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen,
  in that gap, in between, isn't there a consciousness of the present moment;
  fresh, virgin, unaltered by even a hair's breadth of a concept, a luminous, naked awareness?
  Well, that's what naturally peaceful awareness is.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Past, Hair, Meditation

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  You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

  Frederick Douglass

  Justice, Diversity, Depth

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• The resurrection is the keystone of the arch on which our faith is supported. If Christ has not risen, we must impeach all those witnesses for lying. If Christ has not risen, we have no proof that the crucifixion of Jesus differed from that of the two thieves who suffered with him. If Christ has not risen, it is impossible to believe his atoning death was accepted.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Easter, Lying

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• No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused those men to maintain to their dying whispers that Jesus is alive and is Lord. Two thousand years later, nothing less than the power of the risen Christ could inspire Christians around the world to remain faithful-despite prison, torture, and death.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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• Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said!

  Keith Green

  Easter, Tombstone, Angel

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• We ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace. Yes, Christ is our peace, and through him to implore peace for all the world.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, War, Hatred

  "Pope Francis Gives First Easter Sunday Message: Love, Peace and Jesus", www.foxnews.com. March 31, 2013.

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• A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.

  John C. Calhoun

  Powerful, Government, People

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

  Jacques Barzun

  Future, Civilization, Vision

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• I've risen from the dead. Though sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I feel like I've died. I swear I'm aging in dog years. But no, I'm not dead. It's funny how stuff like that gets started.

  Tony Stewart

  Dog, Morning, Years

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• If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Brain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

  Booker T. Washington

  Success, Determination, Giving Up

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that twenty-two million Black people have not risen up against their oppressors in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria and even by the democratic traditions.

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Men, Hands

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• Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Way, Revolution, Christianity

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• The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to glen and ancient will be young again*. The dead had, after all, risen. From dead and dry things there was growth, and new life everywhere. And the endlessly long winter had at last turned to spring. From life to death and back again to life. It was indeed the greatest magic in the world.

  Lauren Oliver

  Spring, Healing, Winter

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• Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.

  Regina Doman

  Sound, Body, Next

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• In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.

  Albert Camus

  Average, Facts, Normal

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Lord Voldermort Has Risen Again.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lord

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• I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and--no matter how difficult it would have been--made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have--yet I couldn't because I didn't want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Boys, Feet, Want

  Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.113, Yale University Press

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• It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.

  Boris Pasternak

  Mean, Men, Different

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• Percy," my father said, "what exactly do you mean?" "Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their parents," I said. "They felt angry, resentful, and unloved, and they had a good reason.

  Rick Riordan

  Father, Mean, Parent

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• I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself for love, she said. If that's true, I thought, the cost of our love had risen. And despite wanting to be as real to you as you were to me, I couldn't afford us any longer. We were beyond my means.

  Christopher Barzak

  Mother, Giving Up, Real

  Christopher Barzak (2008). “The Love We Share Without Knowing”, p.73, Bantam

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