Resurrection Quotes

I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.

Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.

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

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

The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history.

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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

Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.

It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.

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

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

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.

I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice

The resurrection stands related to righteousness in the same way that death stands related to sin.

Everything in nature is resurrection.

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

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.

Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.

All of nature is resurrection.

If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

In the New Testament outside the Gospels and the beginning of Acts, again and again, the fact of Jesus’ resurrection is closely linked to our own ultimate resurrection, which isn’t life after death – it’s life after life after death.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.

Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I, and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.

If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection.

Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.

If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get a celestial resurrection.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.

... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more ductile material than meaning... It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself.

A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said.

The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.

Christ is risen from the dead!

The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life

The resurrection is God's way of getting our attention.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.

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

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.

Lord, 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.

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.