Ressurection Quotes

“Human nature presents human minds with a puzzle which they have not yet solved and may never succeed in solving, for all that we can tell. The dichotomy of a human being into 'soul' and 'body' is not a datum of experience. No one has ever been, or ever met, a living human soul without a body... Someone who accepts—as I myself do, taking it on trust—the present-day scientific account of the Universe may find it impossible to believe that a living creature, once dead, can come to life again; but, if he did entertain this belief, he would be thinking more 'scientifically' if he thought in the Christian terms of a psychosomatic resurrection than if he thought in the shamanistic terms of a disembodied spirit.”
― Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Experiences

“Spring is here and my old joy blooms in the world.”
― Steve Scafidi, For Love of Common Words: Poems

“I’ve crossed that line we’re not supposed to cross. I died. And I’m still here. I cheated death. I took away God’s power.
I killed God and I feel empty inside.”
― Sylvain Neuvel, Waking Gods

“At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth; then we become static tombs in the brims of the cemetary soil; waiting to become eternal people in fellowship for God. I know there is another fellowship in heaven!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Every time you think of your dad, you’re
resurrecting him. Why shouldn’t he continue to live
in this world while resting in the other?”
― Clyde DeSouza, Maya

“As a child
I put my finger in the fire
to become
a saint.

As a teenager
every day I would knock my head against the wall.

As a young girl
I went out through a window of a garret
to the roof
in order to jump.

As a woman
I had lice all over my body.
They cracked when I was ironing my sweater.

I waited sixty minutes
to be executed.
I was hungry for six years.

Then I bore a child,
they were carving me
without putting me to sleep.

Then a thunderbolt killed me
three times and I had to rise from the dead three times
without anyone’s help.

Now I am resting
after three resurrections.”
― Anna Swir

“Thus, Christ making His human divine and taking it into heaven is the central event of all time. It is the miracle of all miracles. The resurrection bursts like a sun on the timeline of history, which means this innermost event shines light on all points in history leading up to it and after it.”
― Steve Sanchez, Rethinking Redemption

“For many years scholars have considered it highly significant that Paul, our earliest “witness” to the resurrection, says nothing about the discovery of an empty tomb. Our earliest account of Jesus’s resurrection (1 Cor. 15:3–5) discusses the appearances without mentioning an empty tomb, while our earliest Gospel, Mark, narrates the discovery of the empty tomb without discussing any of the appearances (Mark 16:1–8). This has led some scholars, such as New Testament expert Daniel Smith, to suggest that these two sets of tradition—the empty tomb and the appearances of Jesus after his death—probably originated independently of one another and were put together as a single tradition only later—for example, in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. If this is the case, then the stories of Jesus’s resurrection were indeed being expanded, embellished, modified, and possibly even invented in the long process of their being told and retold over the years.”
― Bart D. Ehrman, How Jesus Became God

“The grave is not a final destination of man but just a resting place for a while.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Who me? I play scales. The scales of
dead fish of oil-slicked seas. My sister
blows wind through the hollows of fallen
trees. And we are the echoes of eternity.
Maybe you’ve heard of us.
We do rebirths, revolts, and resurrections.”
― Saul Williams, The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

“كنا نعيش في يوم الجمعة العظيمة بلا انتهاء، كأن الزمن قد توقف هناك، ولم يأذن بقدوم القيامة والفرح، كنا هناك عالقين في لحظة الصلب ولم نأمل في أن نتجاوزها البتة.”
― جلجامش نبيل, Gilgamesh Nabeel, صراع الأقنعة

“Today the minute researches of science no longer produce anything but an artificial stereophony, stereonomic and holographic effects (the DNA double helix is one of these), and this mere shadow-play is all one needs to manipulate appear ances. But the real that is caught in that way is eversive, if not indeed reversible. Under the subtle torture of science, all it ever confesses is its nonexistence.

The more profound things become, the more they slip away, as they do in a concave mirror. The escape into transcendence, the assumption of the world into some upper realm (the Law, the Idea, God, the Truth) has been replaced by a process of evanescence toward the lower reaches, the narrow escape into immanence.

Where the feminine resuscitates, without ideology, and without sexual hysteria either, in a joyous provocation, in a lascivious form of gratuitous self exhibition, of ironic scenography of a sex without desire. Light, transparent perversion. New allegory of the body.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

“To treat God and heaven as materialistic is the greatest error that any religious person can ever make because it results in a head-on collision between religion and science, and there can be only one winner in that struggle. There is only one arena that can stand outside materialistic science in any meaningful way and that is the incorporeal, dimensionless domain of idealism. It is that domain, and none other, that belongs to God, the soul and the afterlife. Without idealism, there is only materialism and certain death from which no one will ever come back.”
― Michael Faust , The Reincarnation of Jesus Christ

“In truth, all sophisticated Christians subscribed to reincarnation, although they were scrupulous about never saying so publicly. Resurrection was deemed the appropriate teaching for those referred to as “simple believers” who were averse to any kind of demanding intellectual analysis. Resurrection – coming back from the dead with your familiar body to the world you were familiar with – was regarded as the idea most likely to make sense to people lacking any kind of education or ability to comprehend abstract philosophy. Nothing’s changed. The world is full of simple believers without two brain cells to rub together.”
― Michael Faust, The Reincarnation of Jesus Christ

“My groggy disbelief is but a fraction of the weariness and soul heaviness that was felt by the women who arrived at a certain tomb before dawn and were not expecting to behold the risen Son.
But because Jesus did rise from the dead, every glorious sunrise (even the early ones) marches forward and points us to look ahead to the day that is coming, which will be the end of darkness forever.”
― Gloria Furman, Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms

“When all of life's questions are answered, reality is but a poke in the flesh.”
― Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“The Blakean reading of the birth of Adam (order or really Jesus) is that He does not want to be immortalised by the death of God. For Blake it is only God (in ibn al arabi’s sense of the word god) that can truly die man is immortal thus he resists creation through (pain) and the devil understood that. Jesus for Blake is born on the cross. It’s in that moment where he utters “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?  Why are you so far away when I groan for help?” The reading that god for a moment through Jesus lost faith in hisself and consequently the humanity through the experience of unbearable suffering and pain is not the Jesus’s moment on cross but the opposite for Blake Jesus on the cross was about his moment of immortality, that he feels betrayed by his immortality as he was promised death it’s truly the death drive that speaks in Jesus because Jesus at that moment became the son of man rather than son of God in a truly abstract yet literal sense. Jesus was promised death but rather he received immortality which is why in Quran Jesus is not resurrected on the third day but taken above among immortals to come back later. He never dies on the cross and this repetition for Jesus is vulgar. This is the true jouissance Jesus really says on the cross that He wants to suffer more to self sacrifice for his desire of death for his pleasure but the reason he says that oh lord why have you abandoned me is when he finally sees his immortality.”
― Syed Buali Gillani

“His life is his prison while his death is limned to him as a prospect of paradoxical resurrection, a promise of miraculous redemption from his vale of tears.”
― Amos Oz, Black Box

“Ima nešto zadovoljavajuće u patnji koja se ne želi prikazati drugima, a to zadovoljstvo je ubistveno. Neko odjednom prestane da se žali čak i svome lekaru, bolnu grimasu otkriva jedino samome sebi, u ogledalu, a ako posrće, radije bira da se osloni na drvo ili na zid, nego na drugu osobu.

Tako umire čovek, a rađa se – vuk.”
― Vladimir Lenski, Hodnik

“The resurrection of the dead to the glory of the new Jerusalem and a renewed earth marks the end of the wilderness. Therefore, today, in the here and now, the call of God to His church is the call to go to Him into the wilderness and to dwell with Him there while we wait the completion of His redemptive work in the world, culminating in the new creation.”
― D.J. Marotta, Liturgy in the Wilderness: How the Lord's Prayer Shapes the Imagination of the Church in a Secular Age

“The resurrection of Christ is the cornerstone of our faith, giving us hope of life beyond death. Because He lives, we too shall live. Our bodies will be resurrected, just as His was, but not everyone will share in eternal life. There will be a distinction made between the just and the unjust, with some awakening to everlasting life and others to shame and contempt. Let us hold fast to the promise of resurrection and strive to be among the righteous, who will rise to eternal life in Christ.”
― Shaila Touchton