Resurrection Quotes

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

Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

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.

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.