Oscar Romero
Archbishop, Activist
"I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador."
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Resurrection
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Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection."
Peter Rollins
Philosopher
"I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice"
William Butler Yeats
Poet, Playwright
"Everything in nature is resurrection."
Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed."
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"Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection."
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"The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy."
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"Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection."
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"Cancel my subscription to the resurrection."
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"A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection."
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"... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more ductile material than meaning... It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself."
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"Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength."
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"If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said."
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"Christ is risen from the dead!"
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"Only where there are graves are there resurrections."
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"Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection."
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"The man in Christ rose again, not only the God."
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"JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection."
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"The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it."
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"Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave."
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"However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no."
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"Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless."
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"Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences."
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"I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ."
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"Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now."
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