#resurrection

Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing. ↗

— Stanley Spencer

#big #bring #double #double meaning #everyday

...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#hope #missions #resurrection #life

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection. ↗

— Voltaire

#nature

The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#basis #birth #death #evangelists #fact

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

#considered #his #jackie #performance #resurrection

It was clear that everything considered important and good was insignificant and repulsive, and that all this glamour and luxury hid the old well-known crimes, which not only remained unpunished but were adorned with all the splendor men can devise. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#resurrection #men

The old world told men merely about to live and to die. Today men think about defeating death and resurrection. ↗

— Toba Beta

#forever-live #live #resurrection #death

If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#resurrection #death

With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new. ↗

— Aberjhani

#inspirational-quotes #modern-authors #music #paranormal #parapsychology

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. ↗