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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.
Sep 30, 2025
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.
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.
The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive, it is so much more. The message of Easter is that Jesus has risen!
Comedy is the only hope for humanity.
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross.
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.
Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.
Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.
The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.
The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.
There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.
your faith and hope are in god.
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said.
Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith.
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.
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."
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice.
Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.
Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.
Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.
We live and die; Christ died and lived!
Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project.
Death is strong, but Life is stronger.
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Christ the Lord is risen to-day, Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The resurrection power of Jesus broke Satan's captive power. When He led the Old Testament saints from paradise to heaven, He led captivity captive!
Christ is risen from the dead!
Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said!
The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.
Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: "I will arise."
The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.
Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
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