Tagged: Jesus Christ
His Resurrection
Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author’s control. C.S. Lewis
He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already. Frederick W. Robertson
In many respects I find an unresurrected Jesus easier to accept. Easter makes him dangerous. Because of Easter I have to listen to his extravagant claims and can no longer pick and choose from his sayings. Moreover, Easter means he must be loose out there somewhere. Philip Yancey
The seed contains the pattern for the plant that grows. All the genetic code for an entire oak tree is contained inside the kernel of the acorn. Likewise, our resurrection bodies will bear a resemblance to the body that is buried – but with a far greater glory. We will be ourselves, only perfect. And the decomposition of the earthly will only facilitate the remaking of a glorified resurrection body – with none of the flaws of the old, but with all that is necessary for a perfect existence in heaven. John MacArthur
If a skillful workman can turn a little earth and ashes into such curious transparent glasses as we daily see, and if a little seed that bears no show of such a thing can produce the more beautiful flowers of the earth; and if a little acorn can bring forth the greatest oak; why should we once doubt whether the seed of everlasting life and glory, which is now in the blessed souls with Christ, can by Him communicate a perfection to the flesh that is dissolved into its elements? Richard Baxter
The Gospels do not explain the resurrection; the resurrection explains the Gospels. Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith; it is the Christian faith. J.S. Whale
The Resurrection is the central theme in every Christian sermon reported in the Acts…The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say that they have seen the Resurrection. C.S. Lewis
Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in the resurrection shall have a little golden tail. Martin Luther
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime. Martin Luther
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. Timothy Keller
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. N.T. Wright
Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. Watchman Nee
We are adopted into God’s family through the resurrection of Christ from the dead in which he paid all our obligations to sin, the law, and the devil, in whose family we once lived. Our old status lies in his tomb. A new status is ours through his resurrection. Sinclair B. Ferguson
I went to a psychologist friend and said if 500 people claimed to see Jesus after he died, it was just a hallucination. He said hallucinations are an individual event. If 500 people have the same hallucination, that’s a bigger miracle than the resurrection. Lee Strobel
Taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ. B.F. Westcott
Thus we may say of our ministers and Christian friends, yet a little while, and we shall not see them, either they must leave us or we must leave them, but it is certain that we must part shortly, and yet not part forever. It is but a good night to those we hope to see with joy in the morning. Matthew Henry
The old world told men merely about to live and to die. Today men think about defeating death and resurrection. Toba Beta
If the thing happened, it was the central event in the history of the earth. CS Lewis
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison
On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. Douglas Horton
The seed dies into new life and so does man. George McDonald
What we have at the moment isn’t as the old liturgies used to say, ‘the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,’ but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end. N.T. Wright
The resurrection completes the inauguration of God’s kingdom. . . . It is the decisive event demonstrating thet God’s kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven. 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. N.T. Wright
For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ. Brennan Manning
In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word ‘trouble’ loses much of its meaning. Dennis Hopper
And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here. St. Augustine
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Pope John Paul II
“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” John 11:25
Jesus Christ
A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. D.L. Moody
Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God because He said so. C.S. Lewis
This Man (Jesus) suddenly remarks one day, ‘No one need fast while I am here.’ Who is this Man who remarks that His mere presence suspends all normal rules? C.S. Lewis
We may note in passing that He was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three results-Hatred-Terror-Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild admiration. C.S. Lewis
Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ. Blaise Pascal
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. Augustine
God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. David Livingstone
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. Harry Emerson Fosdick
No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved. John Knox
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade. Desiderius Erasmus
Consider Jesus. Know Jesus. Learn what kind of Person it is you say you trust and love and worship. Soak in the shadow of Jesus. Saturate your soul with the ways of Jesus. Watch Him. Listen to Him. Stand in awe of Him. Let Him overwhelm you with the way He is. John Piper
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living. John Henry Newman
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. Karl Barth
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ. Oswald Chambers
When men sought to make Him a king He fled; now that they seek to put Him to death He goes out to meet them. Rudolph Stier
He [Jesus] has a right to interrupt your life. He is Lord. When you accepted Him as Lord, you gave Him the right to help Himself to your life anytime He wants. Henry Blackaby
God doesn’t just give us grace, He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace. Joni Eareckson Tada
By a matchless parable our Lord there taught us that all believers are branches of the Living Vine, and that, apart from Him we are nothing and can do nothing because we have in us no life. A.T. Pierson
Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only way. A.W. Tozer
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you, sinking sinner? This alone – I have a high priest in heaven, and he can support in the hour of affliction. This alone can give you peace – I have a high priest in heaven. When you are dying – when friends can do you no good – when sins rise up like spectres around your bed – what can give you peace? This – “I have a high priest in heaven” . Robert Murray McCheyne
Jesus was God spelling himself out in language humanity could understand. S.D. Gordon
While many try to ignore Jesus, when He returns in power and might, this will be impossible. Michael Youssef
If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation. John Piper
