Easter Resurrection Quotes

• Christ the Lord is risen to-day, Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.

  Charles Wesley

  Easter, Angel, Son

  Charles Wesley, Frederic M. BIRD (1867). “Charles Wesley seen in his finer and less familiar poems. [A collection of his poems edited by F. M. Bird.]”, p.64

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• Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

  Pope John Paul II

  Depression, God, Spiritual

  "Force of Nature". Book by Dana Mentink (p. 215), December 3, 2013.

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• Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Easter, Life Changing

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

  Watchman Nee

  Easter, Resurrection, Crosses

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.37, CLC Publications

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• We live and die; Christ died and lived!

  John Stott

  Easter, Life Changing, Sunday

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• God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

  Billy Graham

  Love, Christian, Easter

  Twitter post from Apr 05, 2015

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• Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.

  Phillips Brooks

  Easter, Strong, Dark

  Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”

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• There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Easter, Rose

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Apr 15, 2012

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• The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice.

  Henry Knox Sherrill

  Spiritual, Easter, Life Changing

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• If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Life Changing, Teaching

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.210, Penguin

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• The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.

  Billy Graham

  Easter, Keys, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, p.106, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It tells us that the spiritual is higher than the material; that in this universe spirit counts for more than matter.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Spiritual, Easter, Mean

  Henry Parry Liddon (1885). “Easter in St. Paul's: Sermons Bearing Chiefly on the Resurrection of Our Lord”

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• Death is strong, but Life is stronger.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Easter, Strong

  Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”

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

  Martin Luther

  Friday, Spiritual, Jesus

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• Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Easter, Prayer

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• your faith and hope are in god.

  Billy Graham

  Easter, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, Hope And Faith

  Billy Graham (2014). “Hope for Each Day Signature Edition: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, p.287, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise."

  Phillips Brooks

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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• A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Friday, Jesus, Easter

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

  Janine di Giovanni

  Morning, Easter, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ

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• There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.

  Brooke Westcott

  Easter, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, Historic

  Brooke Foss Westcott (1867). “The Gospel of the Resurrection: Thoughts on Its Relation to Reason and History”, p.133

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• The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive, it is so much more. The message of Easter is that Jesus has risen!

  Colin S. Smith

  Jesus, Easter, Life Changing

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• Comedy is the only hope for humanity.

  Roseanne Barr

  Easter, Humanity, Comedy

  "Q&A: Roseanne Barr, on marijuana, the CIA, and how she is, in fact, the president". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Easter Season, Funny Easter

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• Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross.

  Colin S. Smith

  Easter, Expression, Awful

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• The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Easter, World

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