Resurrection Quotes

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground.

Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

THe resurrection is a source of great hope.

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.

All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

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.

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.

We therefore commit his body to the ground;

earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death;

every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. Matthew 22:30

Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse.

All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

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.

You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.

There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today.

.. they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

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

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm;

resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

The foundation of our religion 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.