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Resurrection Quotes

Words on the moment that reshaped a faith.

These Resurrection quotes examine the New Testament witnesses and the disciples' proclamation, weighing what history and Believe both bring to the story.

Representing not just the resurrection of a career, 1953 marked 37-year-old Frank Sinatra's creative emergence as the best singer of his century.

Quotes by Steve Erickson

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.

Quotes by Simon Greenleaf

There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot.

Quotes by Sherwin B. Nuland

At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.

Quotes by Said Nursi

Believe Quotes

The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.

Quotes by Said Nursi

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

Quotes by Peter Jennings

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

Quotes by Paul Ricoeur

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

Quotes by Paul Ricoeur

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Best Quotes

I worked with Devin Kelley on 'Resurrection,' and Mekhi Phifer has been a long time buddy.

Quotes by Nicholas Gonzalez

I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament.

Quotes by Melvyn Bragg

Traditional Judaism has always embraced the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and the ultimate resurrection of the dead.

Quotes by Meir Soloveichik

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.

Quotes by Martin H. Fischer

You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.

Quotes by Liberace

Bodily Quotes

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

Quotes by Josh McDowell

Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.

Quotes by Josh McDowell

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

Quotes by Josh McDowell

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

Quotes by Hillary Clinton

When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.

Quotes by Gary Dourdan

Body Quotes

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

Quotes by Ellen Burstyn

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the focus of these Resurrection quotes?
These quotes center on the New Testament account of the resurrection, including how the disciples proclaimed it and how historians have examined the record.
Do the quotes discuss historical scrutiny of the resurrection?
Yes, one quote notes that 19th-century critics attacked the reliability of the biblical documents that describe the event.
Is this page only about religious belief?
Mostly, yes. The quotes are grounded in the New Testament narrative and how both believers and historians have engaged with it.
What do the quotes say the disciples proclaimed?
According to one quote, the disciples proclaimed within weeks that Jesus Christ had been bodily raised from the dead and had appeared to them.
Where can I read more related quotes?
You can explore our Believe and Body quotes pages for related themes.

For related reflections, see our Bodily and Body quote collections.