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“The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.”

Humanity Christ Church Resurrection Medieval Medieval Times

Author:Timothy Radcliffe

“Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.”

Impossible Labor Tasks Quitting Resurrection Sole Biographers

Book:The Mother Who Stayed: Stories

Source: The Mother Who Stayed: Stories

“The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.”

Inspiration Motivation Loss Fiction Magic Creation Overcoming Obstacles Tricks Tales Narrative Resurrection Archetype

Author:Marco Tempest

“The Gospel Prayer In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more, and nothing I have done that makes You love me less. Your presence and approval are all I need for everlasting joy. As You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.”

Needs Has Beens I Can Done Joy Christ Can Do Prayer Compassion Praying Crosses Resurrection Approval Everlasting I Pray Your Presence

Book:Gospel

Source: Gospel

“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.”

Source: The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons

“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.)”

“I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory: that at the end of this world there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a final judgement of all mankind, when the righteous shall be publicly acquitted by Christ the Judge and admitted to everlasting life and glory, and the wicked be sentenced to everlasting punishment.”

World Believe Made Soul Ends I Believe Christ Taken Mankind This World Judging Holy Glory Finals Believer Punishment Judgement Wicked Resurrection Righteous Everlasting Everlasting Life

Author:Roger Sherman

“The miracles of Jesus are signs of the right order of things. Jesus was not so much turning things upside down as turning them rightside up or, at least, giving his followers glimpses of the rightside up. The miracles of healing, deliverance, provision, and resurrection all reveal that God, through Jesus, is making all things new, that he is restoring what once was unbroken.”

Giving Order Jesus Healing All Things Miracle Followers Resurrection Glimpse Provision Upside Down Deliverance Unbroken Restoring All Things New Things Upside Down

Author:Matt Chandler

“Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.”

Philosophy Would Be Past Literature Scientist Idols Resurrection Sober Frequency Distressing

Author:Morris Raphael Cohen

“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.”

Ifs I Can Body Dies Jesus Differences Lord Fairs Arise Serving Missionary Resurrection Worms Risen Redeemer Great Day Cannibal Glasgow Serving The Lord

Author:John Gibson Paton

“If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and the potential of his fall.”

Ifs Christian Fall Loses Weakness Instant Repentance Resurrection Neglected Backsliding

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“We want gain without pain; we want the resurrection without going through the grave; we want life without experiencing death; we want a crown without going by way of the Cross. But in God's economy, the way up is down.”

Way Want Pain Economy Gains Crosses Graves Resurrection Laziness Crowns Without Pain

Book:Brokenness: The Heart God Revives

Source: Brokenness: The Heart God Revives

“You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. Because at the very worst, all you can be is dead —and for him who is the Resurrection and the Life, that just makes you his cup of tea.”

Stills Worst Safe Cups Tea Resurrection Folds Cups Of Tea

Book:Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace

Source: Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace

“The circle, or ring, dance was seen as an earthly counterpart of the heavenly dance of the angels, which was itself a celebration of the resurrection.”

Angel Dancing Dance Rings Circles Heavenly Celebration Resurrection Counterparts

Book:Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement

Source: Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement

“The foundation of our belief is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge it was therefore impossible that they could have persisted in affirming the truths they have narrated, had not Jesus actually rose from the dead, and had they not known this fact as certainly as they knew any other fact.”

Facts Jesus Belief Known Impossible Birth Bases Miracle Foundation Rose Resurrection Ministry Affirming Evangelists Personal Knowledge

Author:Simon Greenleaf

“The same power that brought Christ back from the dead is operative within those who are Christ’s. The Resurrection is an ongoing thing.”

Christ Resurrection Ongoing

Author:Leon Morris

“The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.”

Universe Negative Crosses Resurrection

Book:The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee

Source: The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee

“The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact.”

Ifs Has Beens Facts Hours Emptiness Resurrection Easter Tombs Jerusalem Proclamation Religious Easter

Author:Paul Althaus

“Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.”

Men Believe God Jesus I Believe Becoming Resurrection Becoming God

Author:Eric Butterworth

“Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has been given to you by others - if you drop all that has been given by others, you will have a totally different quality to your being: innocence. This will be a crucifixion of the persona, the personality, and there will be a resurrection of your innocence. You will become a child again, reborn.”

Ifs Children Has Beens Different Names Given Quality Identity Personality Innocence Resurrection Child Abuse Longevity Persona Reborn Crucifixion

Author:Rajneesh

“It is reported from the famous worshiper Rabi'ah al-Adawiyya (radiAllahu anha) that she said: "I have never heard the adhaan except that I remember the caller who will announce the Day of Resurrection, and I never see the falling snow except that I imagine the flying pages of the records of peoples deeds (on that day), and I never see swarms of locusts except that I think about the Great Gathering on the Last Day."”

Thinking Said Wisdom Lasts Remember Fall Records Imagine Heard Pages Deeds Flying Snow Islamic Als Resurrection Gathering Last Day Swarms

Author:Rabia Basri

“God has defeated Satan through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through this overwhelming victory, God has also empowered you to overcome any temptation to sin and has provided sufficient resources for you to respond biblically to any problem of life. By relying on God's power and being obedient to His Word, you can be an overcomer in any situation.”

“On that bright and cloudless morning when the dead in Christ shall rise. And the glory of His resurrection share. When His chosen ones shall gather o their home beyond the skies. And the roll is called up yonder I'll be there.”

Home Christ Morning Sky Share Glory Chosen Redemption Resurrection Chosen One

Author:James Milton Black

“The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses it stood once, and will return. There will be a resurrection of the wild. Already it stands in wait at the pasture fences.”

Country Past Life Is Waiting Tree Fields Return Garden Horse Ghost Forests Resurrection Fence Stewardship Pastures

Book:New Collected Poems

Source: New Collected Poems

“The resurrection of Christ from the dead, next to the Crucifixion itself, is the most significant event in church history. It isn't a peripheral issue; it's foundational. It's bedrock. It's the bottom line.”

Next Christ Church Lines Issues Events Bottom Significant Resurrection Bottom Line Crucifixion Bedrock Church History Significant Events

Author:Greg Laurie

“The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection”

Ideas Christian Language Concepts Doctrine Resurrection Adequate Translations Incarnation Crucifixion Christian Doctrine

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.”

Ideas Together Christ Too Much Evidence Proof Assumption Resurrection Historic Incidents Deficiency Christs Resurrection

Author:Brooke Westcott

“Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!”

Ifs Reason Lying Lists Selfish Life Changing Motive Torture Rejection Liars Resurrection Persecution Misunderstanding Lied Apostles Martyrdom Perks Selfish Reasons

Author:Peter Kreeft

“Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith.”

Christian Belief Resurrection Christian Faith Easter Resurrection Resurrection Of Jesus Christ Christs Resurrection

Author:George Carey

“Every breath is a resurrection.”

Breaths Resurrection

Book:Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved

Source: Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved

“Every way that we try to make our kids good that isn’t rooted in the good news of the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ is a damnable, crushing, despair-breedin g, Pharisee-produc ing law.”

Way Trying Kids Law Jesus Christ Despair News Jesus Christ Crush Resurrection Rooted Good News Life Death Ascension Pharisees

Author:Elyse Fitzpatrick

“I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event.”

Community Accepting Events Jesus Christ Historical Invention Sunday Resurrection Disciple Easter Jesus Resurrection Easter Sunday Historical Events

Author:Pinchas Lapide

“Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.”

Practice Track Resurrection Foxes Wrong Direction

Book:New Collected Poems

Source: New Collected Poems

“Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at the birth of Dionusos. Hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of resurrection by the tomb of buried Deity at Lerna or at Sais.”

Earth Order Dies Produce Birth Plant Seeds Rising Substitutes Buried Resurrection Deities Tombs Inseparable Emblems

Book:Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

“Conversion is a work above man's power... Never think you can convert yourself. If ever you would be savingly converted, you must despair of doing it in your own strength. It is a resurrection from the dead, a new creation, a work of absolute omnipotence... Conversion is a supernatural work.”

Ifs Thinking Men Would Be Creation Despair Absolutes Conversion Resurrection Omnipotence

Author:Joseph Alleine

“If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says”

Ifs Men Resurrection

Author:Andy Stanley

“I know pretty well what evidence is, and I tell you, such evidence as that for the resurrection has never broken down yet.”

Knows Wells Broken Evidence Resurrection Broken Down

Author:John Singleton Copley

“That Jesus’ followers (and later Paul) had resurrection experiences is, in my judgment, a fact. What the reality was that gave rise to the experiences I do not know.”

Knows Facts Reality Jesus Judgment Followers Resurrection Jesus Followers

Author:E. P. Sanders

“The resurrection state is the culmination of glorified humanity; is the change of the earthly for the heavenly; is the putting off of flesh and blood, and the putting on of the spiritual body. The body of the resurrection is the body with which the spirit is clothed for its celestial life.”

States Body Spiritual Spirit Humanity Blood Flesh Heavenly Resurrection Celestial Flesh And Blood Culmination

Author:Randolph Sinks Foster

“Go with your love to the fields. Lie down in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts. As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.”

Way Mind Lying Loses Practice Fields Mark Track Shade Resurrection Swear Foxes Trails Lap Allegiance Wrong Direction

Author:Wendell Berry

“God loves to bring good out of bad. He loves to turn crucifixions into resurrections. Every obstacle is an opportunity. Every problem has potential. Every crisis is an opportunity for ministry. Every hurt God wants to use for His glory.”

Want Use Problem Turns Opportunity Hurt Glory Crisis Obstacles God Love Resurrection Ministry Crucifixion

Author:Rick Warren

“I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.”

Thinking Important Play Young Reading Ability Alive Stranger Resurrection Shakespeare's Plays Reading Shakespeare

Author:Rita Dove

“The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied from the ancient religions of the Eastern world. Every thing told of Christ has reference to the sun. His reported resurrection is at sunrise, and that on the first day of the week; that is, on the day anciently dedicated to the sun, and from thence called Sunday.”

World Firsts Christ Sun Week Ancient Sunday Dedicated Resurrection Twelve Sunrise Eastern Apostles Fables Parody Days Of The Week Zodiac

Book:COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America

Source: COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America

“My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.”

People Stories Light Dies Belief Known Example Acceptance Quiet Relation Saint Resurrection

Author:A. N. Wilson

“In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.”

Important Whole Stories Jesus Christ Events Jesus Christ Resurrection Important Events

Book:Human Nature and the Gospel

Source: Human Nature and the Gospel

“Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. They assume that the most likely explanation is miraculous resurrection through some unproven divine connection, but more likely scenarios include a stolen body, a mismarked grave, a planned removal, faulty reports, creative storytelling, edited scriptures, etc. No magic required.”

“We cannot give up in the face of evil. God is Love and he has defeated evil through Christ’s death and resurrection.”

Giving Faces Evil Christ Giving Up Resurrection Defeated Not Giving Up God Is Love Evil God

Author:Pope Francis

“Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test.”

Heart Love Is Failing Birth Tomorrow Tests Eternity Infinite Chains Resurrection Seekers Birth And Death

Author:Rumi

“No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.”

Matter Happens Pain Faces Struggle Trouble Promise Tragedy No Matter What Depth Disappointment Life Changing Temporary Good Life Loved Ones Resurrection Stalking Christs Resurrection

Author:Josh McDowell

“The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is one of the best attested facts on record. There were so many witnesses to behold it, that if we do in the least degree receive the credibility of men's testimonies, we cannot and we dare not doubt that Jesus rose from the dead.”

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106