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“Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality.”

Source: The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland

“On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.”

World Way Firsts Earth Night Found Heaven Christ Wonder Creation Garden Stones Empty Thirds Died Graves Evening Dawn Gardener Semblance New Earth Daybreak

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat priest to prayer. You mourn for the empty pageant of a name, when slavery flaps her wing, ... Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? - Hell stalks abroad; - the lash resounds on the slave's naked sides; and the sick wretch, who can no longer earn the sour bread of unremitting labour, steals to a ditch to bid the world a long good night.”

“What if thou be saint or sinner, Crooked gray-beard, straight beginner,-- Empty paunch, or jolly dinner, When Death thee shall call. All like are rich or richer, King with crown, and cross-legged stitcher, When the grave hides all.”

Ifs Death Rich Kings Crosses Empty Saint Dinner Graves Thee Sinner What If Gray Crowns Beard Crooked Beginners Jolly

Book:LYRICS AND OTHER POEMS,

Source: LYRICS AND OTHER POEMS,

“The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.”

Men Greatness Kings Empty Graves Mortals Cheerful Mirth

Book:Love in a Village ... As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Printed ... from the prompt book. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald

Source: Love in a Village ... As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Printed ... from the prompt book. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald

“who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?”

Persons Sometimes Loneliness Bed Empty Embrace Longing Graves

Author:Leonore Fleischer

“From the empty grave of Jesus the enemies of the cross turn away in unconcealable dismay. Those whom the force of no logic can convince, and whose hearts are steeled against the appeal of almighty love from the cross itself, quail before the irresistible power of this simple fact. Christ has risen from the dead! After two thousand years of the most determined assault upon the evidence which demonstrates it, that fact stands. And so long as it stands Christianity, too, must stand as the one supernatural religion.”

“When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty pleasures, God removed every possible obstruction to the covenant by being faithful for us, by becoming like us and subjecting Himself to the very worst within us, loving us all the way to the cross and all the way out of the grave.”

People Way Pleasure Worst Becoming Crosses Empty Graves Appeals Faithful Abandoned Shallow Fidelity Covenant Being Faithful Obstruction

Author:Rachel Held Evans

“The mocker will not have the last laugh. You see, dancing on the grave of an extinguished Christianity is farcical at best. Because the grave is empty. And the one who knows the way out of the grave sits in the heavens and laughs.”

Knows Way Lasts Heaven Christianity Laughing Empty Dancing Graves

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.”

Mind Firsts Form Position Clothes Empty Stuck Graves Disciple Easter Tombs Easter Season

Author:Josh McDowell

“France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.”

Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection

“In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.”

Source: The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

“The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.”

World Humans Purpose Atheism Conditions Empty Ultimate Leaving Graves This Life Deceit Meaningless Human Condition Pathetic Find Me Transcendental Theism Theist

Book:Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz

Source: Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz