276 Quotes About Resurrection

If a grave is empty, is it a grave? I wonder how Jesus would answer that.

No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our commentaries on the Bible. Nothing is more formidable and unconquerable than the Church Militant. But nothing is more sleepy and sheepish than the Church Mumbling. Christ's words roused His enemies to murder and His friends to martyrdom. Our words reassure both sides and send them to sleep. He put the world in a daze. We put it in a doze.

Jesus was buried in a borrowed tomb because He was planning on returning it to its rightful owner after a short weekend.

To believe in the story of Easter is to believe that a wall is nothing more than a door in disguise.

The whole message of Jesus Christ is rejoicement. Jesus has said: Those who lose themselves will find themselves. It is to dissolve like a drop falls into the sea. The spiritual teacher is a death, but he is also a rebirth, a resurrection, a rejoicement.

Unto the Cross came death, and unto death came the Cross.

Easter is the one morning in all of history where the dawn came twice; once on the eastern horizon and again in eternity.

When we say it is the whole story, the cross tells us that death is only half the story. And it is by far the least compelling half.

If death is inevitable, who’s to say that there aren’t other things that are inevitable as well? A cross and an empty tomb say ‘yes’ and ‘yes’.