 We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings! Author: A.W. Tozer
Source: Renewed Day by Day, Christianity Today, v. 40, n. 4.
Topics: Resurrection |
| Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Miracles, Salvation, Resurrection |
| Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: God, Resurrection |
| You will bear me witness, my friends, that it is exceedingly seldom I ever intrude into the mysteries of the future with regard either to the second advent, the millennial reign, or the first and second resurrection. As often as we come about it in our expositions, we do not turn aside from the point, but if guilty at all on this point, it is rather in being too silent than saying too much Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: The First Resurrection, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, 7:345.
Topics: Prophecy, Doctrine |
| Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Topics: Life, Self-pity |
| He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already. Author: Frederick W. Robertson
Topics: Heaven, Resurrection |
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| What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross and in the power of his resurrection. Author: Frederick W. Robertson
Topics: Virtue, Excellence, Resurrection |
| On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity--the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, p. 234.
Topics: Resurrection |
| Death to the Christian is the funeral of all his sorrows and evils, and the resurrection, of all his joys. Author: James H. Aughey
Topics: Death |
| Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection. Author: John Calvin
Source: Institutes, 3.10.5.
Topics: Resurrection |
| I went to a psychologist friend and said if 500 people claimed to see Jesus after he died, it was just a hallucination. He said hallucinations are an individual event. If 500 people have the same hallucination, that's a bigger miracle than the resurrection. Author: Lee Strobel
Topics: Resurrection, Psychology |
| Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in the resurrection shall have a little golden tail. Author: Martin Luther
Topics: Heaven, Comfort, Resurrection |
| Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime. Author: Martin Luther
Topics: Eternity, Nature, Resurrection |
| In his life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live; in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins; in his resurrection, a conqueror; in his ascension, a king; in his intercession, a high priest. Author: Martin Luther
Topics: Christ, Resurrection |
| Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things. Author: Ole Hallesby
Topics: Prayer, Authority |
| Because of the empty tomb, we have peace. Because of His resurrection, we can have peace during even the most troubling of times because we know He is in control of all that happens in the world. Author: Paul Chappell
Topics: Peace, Resurrection |
| God's plan makes you sing about resurrection when your hanging on a cross. Author: Rod Parsley
Topics: Resurrection |
| We are adopted into God's family through the resurrection of Christ from the dead in which he paid all our obligations to sin, the law, and the devil, in whose family we once lived. Our old status lies in his tomb. A new status is ours through his resurrection. Author: Sinclair B. Ferguson
Topics: Resurrection |
| Salvation is the root--the resurrection is the fruit. Author: T.D. Jakes
Topics: Salvation, Resurrection |
| Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Eternity, The Cross, Resurrection |
| 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. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Atonement, The Cross, Resurrection |
| People shall never enter the kingdom of God through our encouragement, persuasion, argument, inducement, excitement, or attraction; entrance can be gained only by new birth, by nothing less than the resurrection of the spirit. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Salvation, Resurrection |
| Though he may not yet fully experience the meaning of the death of the Lord Jesus, God nevertheless has made him alive together with Christ and he has obtained a new life in the resurrection power of the Lord Jesus. This is new birth. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Conversion, Resurrection |
| Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator. Author: William Law
Topics: Praise, Life |
