{"quotes":[{"text":"All due respect to the Resurrection, but two-becoming-one might be the greatest miracle ever.","author":"Jen Hatmaker","tags":["humor","marriage","resurrection"],"id":1970,"author_id":"Jen+Hatmaker"},{"text":"Jesus’ promise of resurrection of believers came with a demonstration. He did it and said His followers who die will do same. This is leadership! It’s based on truth!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["believers","christ","christians","demonstrate","demonstration","eternity","follow","follower","followers","food-for-thought","god","heaven","israelmore-ayivor","jehovah","jesus","jesus-christ","lead","leader","leaders","leadership","life-after-death","myles-munroe","promise","resurrect","resurrection","truth"],"id":3335,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Like a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil of our lives until the seed of the Word of God itself begins to grow in us, comes to fruit in us, ripens in us the spiritual journey of a lifetime. So goes the liturgical year through all the days of our lives. /it concentrates us on the two great poles of the faith - the birth and death of Jesus of Nazareth. But as Christmas and Easter trace the life of Jesus for us from beginning to end, the liturgical year does even more: it also challenges our own life and vision and sense of meaning. Both a guide to greater spiritual maturity and a path to a deepened spiritual life, the liturgical year leads us through all the great questions of faith as it goes. It rehearses the dimensions of life over and over for us all the years of our days. It leads us back again and again to reflect on the great moments of the life of Jesus and so to apply them to our own ... As the liturgical year goes on every day of our lives, every season of every year, tracing the steps of Jesus from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, so does our own life move back and forth between our own beginnings and endings, between our own struggles and triumphs, between the rush of acclamation and the crush of abandonment. It is the link between Jesus and me, between this life and the next, between me and the world around me, that is the gift of the liturgical year. The meaning and message of the liturgical year is the bedrock on which we strike our own life's direction. Rooted in the Resurrection promise of the liturgical year, whatever the weight of our own pressures, we maintain the course. We trust in the future we cannot see and do only know because we have celebrated the death and resurrection of Jesus year after year. In His life we rest our own. ― Joan D. Chittister, The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life - The Ancient Practices Series.","author":"Joan D. Chittister","tags":["benedictine","church","easter","jesus","liturgy","resurrection"],"id":5446,"author_id":"Joan+D.+Chittister"},{"text":"To summarize, Easter Sunday is the most important Sunday. It is the Sunday of all Sundays. It is the day of the new beginning of the entire cosmos, the day of resurrection. In our worship we must be careful not to reduce our message to the Easter fact only. The Easter fact must include the message this fact proclaims: God makes all things new. It must also include the message that we have been raised with Christ. Calling God's people to die to sin and rise to the new life is central not only to Easter day but to the Easter season.","author":"Robert E. Webber","tags":["christ","easter","hope","new-life","resurrection","sunday"],"id":7361,"author_id":"Robert+E.+Webber"},{"text":"In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of us anyway. We are corpses.At first, we sought rebirth. But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies. We get up every morning, skip breakfast, hurry off to work or school. For in those other places, we are more at home.And sometimes we stagger beneath the weight of grief, the immensity of aloneness.","author":"Ellen Hopkins","tags":["aloneness","grief","rebirth","resurrection","zombies"],"id":8736,"author_id":"Ellen+Hopkins"},{"text":"For the Word, realizing that in no other way would the corruption of human beings be undone except, simply, by dying, yet being immortal and the Son of the Father of the Word was not able to die, for this reason he takes to himself a body capable of death, in order that it, participating in the Word who is above all, might be sufficient for death on behalf of all, and through the indwelling Word would remain incorruptible, and so corruption might henceforth cease from all by the grace of the resurrection.","author":"Athanasius of Alexandria","tags":["christianity","incarnation","jesus","resurrection"],"id":11893,"author_id":"Athanasius+of+Alexandria"},{"text":"You are following Jesus and shaping our world in the power of the Spirit. And when the final consummation comes, the work that you have done - whether in Bible study or biochemistry, whether in preaching or in pure mathematics, whether in digging ditches or in composing symphonies - will stand, will last.The fact that we live between, so to speak, the beginning of the End and the end of the End, should enable us to come to terms with our vocation to be for the world that Jesus was for Israel, and in the power of the Spirit to forgive and retain sins.","author":"N.T. Wright","tags":["eastertide","forgiveness","n-t-wright","resurrection"],"id":15293,"author_id":"N.T.+Wright"},{"text":"Easter is God throwing everything at death so that I can give everything to life.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["christianity","cross","crucifixion-resurrection","death","easter","god","impossible","jesus","jesus-christ","possible","resurrection","sacrifice","salvation","tomb"],"id":16030,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["death","dignity","faith","haiku","healing","heaven","human-mortality","love","metaphysics","national-poetry-month","philosophy","rebirth","recovery","resurrection","spirituality","starting-over","wisdom"],"id":16123,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["christianity","cross","crucifixion-resurrection","easter","god","impossible","jesus","jesus-christ","possible","resurrection","tomb"],"id":18011,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":181,"pages":19,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}