Written by Pastor Jack Wellman16 Glorious Quotes about the Resurrection
He is risen! This is what we say every Easter, but do we think about what it really means? Resurrection means that what was once dead is alive again. We serve a living God! And Jesus died so that we can have that same eternal life. May these quotes and verses give you a deeper understanding into the miracle of Christ’s death on the cross and His resurrection!
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The soul is a living organism. And for any question as to the soul's Life we must appeal to Life-science. And what does the Life-science teach? That if I am to inherit Eternal Life, I must cultivate a correspondence with the Eternal.
- Henry Drummond
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The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
- Watchman Nee
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for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
- Luke 20:36
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The risen life of Jesus is the nourishment and strengthening and blessing and life of a Christian. Our daily experience ought to be that there comes, wavelet by wavelet, that silent, gentle, and yet omnipotent influx into our empty hearts, this very life of Christ Himself.
- Alexander MacLaren
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but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
- John 4:14
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It ought to be placed in the forefront of all Christian teaching that Christ's mission on earth was to give men Life. "I am come," He said, "that ye might have Life, and that ye might have it more abundantly." And that He meant literal Life, literal spiritual and Eternal Life, is clear from the whole course of His teaching and acting.
- Henry Drummond
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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.
- Tim Keller
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We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings
- A. W. Tozer
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God has defeated Satan through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through this overwhelming victory, God has also empowered you to overcome any temptation to sin and has provided sufficient resources for you to respond biblically to any problem of life. By relying on God's power and being obedient to His Word, you can be an overcomer in any situation.
- John C. Broger
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Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
- Watchman Nee
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Remember that grace and truth cannot finally be crucified. Remember that all the high things that make humanity beautiful cannot be forever laid in the dust, spattered with blood. And most of all, remember that He who rose from the dead, rose to pour out His Holy Spirit into human lives, and, by that Spirit, to make available to any individual all the fullness of Himself, twenty-four hours a day.
- Ray C. Stedman
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Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His groans thy songs, His pains thine ease, His shame thy glory, His death thy life, His sufferings thy salvation.
- Matthew Henry
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Because of the empty tomb, we have peace. Because of His resurrection, we can have peace during even the most troubling of times because we know He is in control of all that happens in the world.
- Paul Chappell
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Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
- John 11:25
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Jesus Christ did not come into this world to make bad people good; he came into this world to make dead people live.
- Lee Strobel
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I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
- Galatians 2:20
I hope these quotes encourage you as we celebrate Christ’s resurrection!
