Selected Inspiring Quotes about Resurrection
- Jesus was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. Romans 4:25.
- The message of Easter is to confess that Jesus is alive to witness that HE has risen and to believe that He will rise up us in the same pattern He rose from the dead. G. Paulraj
- “Jesus’ 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.
- “If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus' fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.” A.W. Tozer
- “And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?” Frederick Buechner
- The stone was rolled away from the door, not to permit Christ to come out, but to enable the disciples to go in. Peter Marshall
- Jesus did not die on the cross just so we could live comfortable, well-adjusted lives. His purpose is far deeper: He wants to make us like Himself before he takes us to heaven. This is our greatest privilege, our immediate responsibility and our ultimate destiny. Rick Warren
- Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. Watchman Nee
- Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!" Madeleine L’Engle
- 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
- "He is risen; he is not here." Mark 16:6
- "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?" John 11:25, 26
- "The resurrection of the dead is the chief truth of the Christian faith....He who takes away the resurrection mantles our future with Egyptian darkness. To take away the resurrection is to leave man with no preeminence above the beast....Other doctrines are important; this is one of the essentials." Robert L. Moyer
- "The point is not that the resurrection is the price paid for our sins. The point is that the resurrection proves the death of Jesus is an all-sufficient price. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then his death was a failure, God did not vindicate his sin-bearing achievement, and we are still in our sins." John Piper commenting on 1 Corinthians 15:17
- "Men point to the sad incidents of human life on earth, and they ask “Where is the love of God?” God points to that Cross as the unreserved manifestation of love so inconceivably infinite as to answer every challenge and silence all doubt forever. And that Cross is not merely the public proof of what God has accomplished; it is the earnest of all that He has promised." Sir Robert Anderson
- "Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that you may have rest; He wept and mourned, that you may laugh and rejoice; He was betrayed, that You may go free; was apprehended, that You may escape; He was condemned, that You may be justified; and was killed, that You may live; He wore a crown of thorns, that You may wear a crown of glory; and was nailed to the cross, with His arms wide open, to show with what freeness all His merits shall be bestowed on the coming soul; and how heartily He will receive it into His bosom?" John Bunyan
- "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." H. P. Liddon.
- "The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; our fears fade and lose their grip; Our grief over those who have gone on is diminished; Our desires to press on in spite of the obstacles is rejuvenated...Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!'" Charles Swindoll.
- "For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures...And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable." 1 Corinthians 15:3, 4, 17-19 NKJV
- The resurrection of Jesus changes the face of death for all His people. Death is no longer a prison, but a passage into God’s presence. Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there. Clarence W. Hall
- The primary source of the appeal of Christianity is Jesus – His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection. K. Latourette
- “The best proof that Christ has risen is that he is still alive. And for the immense majority of our contemporaries, the only way of seeing him alive is for us Christians to love one another.” Louis Evely
- All of heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, hell afraid of it, while men are the only ones to ignore its meaning. Oswald Chambers
- According to the laws of legal evidence used in courts of law, there is more evidence for the historical fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ than for just about any other event in history. Harvard Law Professor Dr. Simon Greenleaf
- The Gospels do not explain the Resurrection; the Resurrection explains the Gospels. Belief in the Resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith; it is the Christian faith. John S. Whale
- The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection. Billy Graham
- 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
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