Risen Quotes - Page 9

• For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true and only sense, and this in defiance of the clear meaning of words. Heresy lies in the sense assigned, not in the word written; the guilt is that of the expositor, not of the text.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  Lying, Guilt, Arbitrary

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• It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those who have risen to eminence by their profound wisdom and integrity have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God.

  John Quincy Adams

  Jesus, Integrity, Son

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• We could not take one step in the pursuit of holiness if God in His grace had not first delivered us from the dominion of sin and brought us into union with His risen Son. Salvation is by grace and sanctification is by grace.

  Jerry Bridges

  Son, Grace, Unions

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• There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it. A people risen, run their race, and die either of themselves or at the hands of another, who, succeeding to their power, take possession of their place, and upon their monuments write new names; such is history.

  Lew Wallace

  Running, Writing, Vanity

  "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ".

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• I feel we are so blessed to live in a country where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even begin to imagine. However, it terrifies me that we seem to have lost touch with our connection to the earth. I am concerned that we have risen to such heights of arrogance in our refusal to acknowledge that our earth is rapidly changing in ways that might affect us catastrophically but instead, we hold steadfast to our belief that nothing can happen to us as a people.

  Sheryl Crow

  Country, Blessed, Rights

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• The resurrection of Jesus was simply God's unwillingness to take our 'no' for an answer. He raised Jesus, not as an invitation to us to come to heaven when we die, but as a declaration that he himself has now established permanent, eternal residence here on earth. He is standing beside us, strengthening us in this life. The good news of the resurrection of Jesus is not that we shall die and go home to be with him, but that he has risen and comes home with us, bringing all his hungry, naked, thirsty, sick prisoner brothers with him.

  Clarence Jordan

  God, Death, Christian

  Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If I die here in Glasgow, I shall be eaten by worms; If I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms; for in the Great Day my resurrection body will arise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer.

  John Gibson Paton

  Jesus, Differences, Great Day

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• Peoples of the entire world need to hear these words. Their conscience needs to grow in the certainty that Someone exists who holds in His Hands the destiny of this passing world... And this Someone is Love- Love that became Man, Love crucified and risen, Love unceasingly present among men. It is Eucharistic Love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Destiny, Men, Hands

  Pope John Paul II (2013). “Crossing the Threshold of Hope”, p.26, Knopf

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• For 2,000 years, the Church has been the cradle in which Mary places Jesus and entrusts Him to the adoration and contemplation of all peoples. May the humility of the Bride cause to shine forth still more brightly the glory and power of the Eucharist, which she celebrates and treasures in her heart. In the sign of the consecrated Bread and Wine, Christ Jesus risen and glorified, the light of the nations, reveals the enduring reality of His Incarnation. He remains living and real in our midst in order to nourish the faithful with His Body and Blood.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Real, Heart

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• A happy and a glorious Easter will this one be to all of us who get a new vision of the risen Christ, and prostrate ourselves in humble adoration at His feet, and cry out: "Rabboni! Rabboni!" Then shall we set our hearts, lifted into a new atmosphere, on things above, and reach an actual higher life. We shall know more of what it is to live by Christ, in Christ, for Christ, and with Christ, till we reach the marvelous light around the throne in glory.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Easter, Heart, Humble

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• The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive, it is so much more. The message of Easter is that Jesus has risen!

  Colin S. Smith

  Jesus, Easter, Life Changing

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• No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spiritual, Men, Giving

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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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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• O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower!
  How dear Thy Grace has grown!
  From east to west, with loving power,
  Make all the world Thine own.

  Phillips Brooks

  Easter, Flower, Grace

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• We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.

  Robert Ardrey

  Angel, Psychology, Apes

  Robert Ardrey (1977). “The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man”

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• Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.

  John of Damascus

  Easter, Joy, Christ

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• The best proof that Christ has risen is that he is still alive. And for the immense majority of our contemporaries, the only way of seeing him alive is for us Christians to love one another.

  Louis Evely

  Christian, Easter, Majority

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• Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ... Only in this personal relationship with Christ, only in this encounter with the Risen One do we really become Christians... Therefore, let us pray to the Lord to enlighten us, so that, in our world, he will grant us the encounter with his presence, and thus give us a lively faith, an open heart, and great charity for all, capable of renewing the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Philosophy, Heart

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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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• I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.

  David Brainerd

  Enemy, Battle, Missionary

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards (2010). “The Diary of David Brainerd”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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• It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.

  Richard Wright

  Book, Support, Abiding

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• The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

  Bill Bryson

  Numbers, People, Effort

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.364, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Easter, Art, Gleam

  Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory (1980). “The letters of Evelyn Waugh”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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• That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again

  Rumi

  Dream, Moon, Sky

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• We know the surface temperature of the Earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s, cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s, and then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today.

  George W. Bush

  Past, Years, Degrees

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