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The theme for Katoomba Easter Convention this year is 'Resurrection: Death is Not the End'. As I prepare for the convention, I've been reflecting on how life changing a reality the resurrection is. Here are 40 quotes that have impacted me.
In The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey imagines what life after the resurrection was like for Jesus's disciples. He likens their situation to suddenly discovering that a friend who you...
Jun 29, 2015 · 25 Scholars (and 42 Quotes) on the Evidence for Jesus Christ’s Resurrection. The following quotations are from scholars who have largely studied in detail the rise of early Christianity and are experts in New Testament history, Pauline studies, and historical Jesus studies. A diverse range of scholars is quoted including Christians, agnostics ...
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“If the Lord’s bearing our sin for us is not the gospel, I have no gospel to preach.” – Charles Spurgeon
“The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“If I take Easter as the starting point, the one incontrovertible fact about how God treats those whom he loves, then human history becomes the contradiction and Easter a preview of ultimate reality.” – Philip Yancey
“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“Far from this foreign Easter damp and chilly My soul steals to a pear-shaped plot of ground, Where gleamed the lilac-tinted Easter lily Soft-scented in the air for yards around; “Alone, without a hint of guardian leaf! Just like a fragile bell of silver rime, It burst the tomb for freedom sweet and brief In the young pregnant year at Eastertime; A...
“If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideous and repulsive as a cross stained with the blood of Jesus. … An unopened grave would never have opened heaven.” – Billy Graham
“For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.” – Brennan Manning
“Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Because I adamantly refuse to embrace an ideology that life is solely a trajectory to death, I can do no other than adamantly embrace the ideology of the cross and the trajectory of the resurrection.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
“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
Quotes on the Resurrection. “The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not take place, then Chrsitianity is a false religion. If it did take place, then Christ is God and the Christian faith is absolute truth.”—Henry Morris.
There is not only a continuation of it all our life, but also in death itself. Your very bodies sleeping in the dust are, even then, in union with Christ.”. Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680): “It is true indeed the union on Christ’s part is in order of nature first made by the Spirit; therefore Philip. iii.
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Apr 20, 2023 · The article is divided into four sections, corresponding to four basic affirmations: the finality entailed by the resurrection; the individuality of what and who is affirmed in being raised; the communality of the resurrection; and the hope elicited by resurrection faith.
