Robert Webber

A Christ-centered worship – which is event-oriented worship – can never be static and merely intellectual because what happens is an actual and real communication of the power and benefit of the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. Worshiping churches recognize that every gathering of worship is ultimately a praise and thanksgiving for the overthrow [...]

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N.T. Wright

Those who celebrate the mighty resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, therefore, have an awesome responsibility. When we say, “Alleluia! Christ is risen,” we are saying that Jesus is Lord of the world, and that the present would-be lords of the world are not. When we sing, in the old hymn, that “Judah’s Lion burst [...]

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St. Gregory of Nyssa

It is necessary for us to undergo, by means of water, this preparatory rehearsal of the grace of resurrection, so that we may realize that it is as easy for us to rise again from death as to be baptized with water. (St. Gregory of Nyssa, Late 4th c. Bishop)

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Lewis Smedes

Any rational skeptic will remind me that ancient rumors of a rabbi’s resurrection make a thin limb on which to hang the hopes of the world. Yes, I would admit, it is a thin limb. But sturdy enough, for all that, to have held up a sign for all these ages that God the Creator [...]

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Kenneth Woodward

The sharing of Jesus’ new life through the power of the Holy Spirit is an essential dimension of the resurrection. Not everyone will accept that belief. But without it there is no Easter. (Kenneth Woodward, Newsweek, “Rethinking the Resurrection”, December, 1996.)

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Voltaire

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection. (Voltaire, French Philosopher and writer of the 18th c.)

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