I don't go out and preach because of my desire as much as I go out to fulfill the command of Christ. He said, "Go!" to all of His disciples, and we're to go and witness to Christ by the way we live and by our verbal witness about the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ and about the need to repent and believe. I've never had any doubts about my call.
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
The cross of the Cruxifixion without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity.
Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth, Man's resurrection, and the future's bud Shroud in their births.
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.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said.
In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
The resurrection is God's way of getting our attention.
Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.
No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.
Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.
He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.
Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.
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.
If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion. . . The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed.
A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.
Resurrection , like politics , makes strange bedfellows.
The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.