On The Resurrection
We live and die; Christ died and lived!
John Stott
What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God – which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead – lasts forever. Because this event took place, there is no reason to despair, and even when we read the newspaper with all its confusing and frightening news, there is every reason to hope. Karl Barth
Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.
Frederick Buechner
So today we celebrate the gift of victory over every fall we have ever experienced, every sorrow we have ever known, every discouragement we have ever had, every fear we have ever faced — to say nothing of our resurrection from death and forgiveness for our sins. That victory is available to us because of events that transpired on a weekend precisely like this nearly two millennia ago in Jerusalem. Jeffrey R. Holland
So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world,
and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace.
Timothy Keller
Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God’s goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator. William Law
The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means
that one day everything sad will come untrue.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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