But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.
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.
The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.
The resurrection is God's way of getting our attention.
I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice
It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.
Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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!'
In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.
All our losses and sufferings will be made up to us in the resurrection.
Jesus Christ was the only one capable of performing the magnificent Atonement because He was the only perfect man and the Only Begotten Son of God the Father. He received His commission for this essential work from His Father before the world was established. His perfect mortal life devoid of sin, the shedding of His blood, His suffering in the garden and upon the cross, His voluntary death, and the Resurrection of His body from the tomb made possible a full Atonement for people of every generation and time.
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.
If you're wondering where the Lord is at this very hour, I tell you He's alive and well with resurrection power!
The same power that brought Christ back from the dead is operative within those who are Christ’s. The Resurrection is an ongoing thing.
Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
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.
Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our hopes. A gospel of a dead Savior would be a miserable failure and delusion. The Resurrection is the victory of righteousness and life over sin an death.
Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.
Without Pentecost the Christ-event - the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus - remains imprisoned in history as something to remember, think about and reflect on. The Spirit of Jesus comes to dwell within us, so that we can become living Christs here and now.
The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.