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• Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.

  Timothy Keller

  Giving, Scar, Christ

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• Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this creative act of God’s … Resurrection is not a consoling opium, soothing us with the promise of a better world in the hereafter. It is the energy for a rebirth of this life. The hope doesn’t point to another world. It is focused on the redemption of this one.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Believe, Mean, Creative

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• Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!

  Peter Kreeft

  Life Changing, Liars, Lying

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• Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word. The same worldview shift that is demanded by the resurrection of Jesus is the shift that will enable us to transform the world.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Powerful, Different

  FaceBook post by N. T. Wright from Dec 18, 2012

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• Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.

  S. D Gordon

  Easter, Rare Beauty, Chocolate Eggs

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• To be "in Christ" is to place one's trust in Him for salvation from sin. To be "in Christ" is to trust His goodness, not our own; to trust that His sacrificial death on the cross paid the complete debt of death we owe for our sin; to trust that His resurrection gives us eternal life instead of relying upon our own ability to please God. To be "in Christ" is to claim, by faith, the free gift of salvation. To be "in Christ" is to enjoy a completely restored relationship with our Father in heaven by virtue of His Son's righteous standing.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Father, Son, Free Gifts

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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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• I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Relationship, Believe, Humanity

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

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Doubt, Crosses, Interpretation

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• Even if the disciples had believed in the resurrection of Jesus, it is doubtful they would have generated any following. So long as the body was interred in the tomb, a Christian movement founded on belief in the resurrection of the dead man would have been an impossible folly.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• We live and die; Christ died and lived!

  John Stott

  Easter, Life Changing, Sunday

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• It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Friday, Good Friday

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Apr 18, 2014

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• We are not preaching the Gospel of a dead Christ, but of a living Christ who sits exalted at the Father's right hand, and is living to save all who put their trust in Him. That is why those of us who really know the Gospel never have any crucifixes around our churches or in our homes. The crucifix represents a dead Christ hanging languid on a cross of shame. But we are not pointing men to a dead Christ; we are preaching a living Christ. He lives exalted at God's right hand, and He "saves to the uttermost all who come to God by Him."

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Father, Home, Men

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• The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates Christianity above all other world religions.

  Adrian Rogers

  Christian, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, World Religions

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• Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

  N. T. Wright

  Tyrants, Doe, Covenant

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• Keep the Feast of the Resurrection. Be a Peter or a John; hasten to the Sepulchre, running together, running against one another, vying in the noble race (cf. Jn. 20:3-4). And even if you be beaten in speed, win the victory of zeal; not looking into the tomb, but going in.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Running, Winning

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• The Gospels were written in such temporal and geographical proximity to the events they record that it would have been almost impossible to fabricate events. Anyone who cared to could have checked out the accuracy of what they reported. The fact that the disciples were able to proclaim the resurrection in Jerusalem in the face of their enemies a few weeks after the crucifixion shows that what they proclaimed was true, for they could never have proclaimed the resurrection under such circumstances had it not occurred.

  William Lane Craig

  Enemy, Records, Jerusalem

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• Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I make sure it's of first importance with anyone I'm talking to. It all comes down to that, really, when you get right down to it. So it's not complex. Jesus removed our sins and guarantees we can be raised from the dead.

  Phil Robertson

  Jesus, Moving, Past

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• The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Ideas, Doctrine

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• 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.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Punishment, Sorrow

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.360, Hendrickson Publishers

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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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• Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Graves

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Stars, Night

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Father, Way

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2017

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• The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.

  Antony Flew

  Christian, Religious, Miracle

  Gary R. Habermas, Antony Flew, David J. Baggett (2009). “Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew”, p.85, InterVarsity Press

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