Victor Hugo Quotes

Resurrection is a belief and hope in restoring this world.

Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three

In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who believe in His Son. That's what all the Robertsons are banking on.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see if we're able to live among the living, walk among the living.'

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.

Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.

How can I say what it was like to breathe again? I felt newborn. I staggered in the light of the world and took deep gulps of fresh sea air. It was late in the day: the wet mouth of the afternoon was full on my face. My soul blossomed in that brief moment as they led me out of doors. I fell, my skirts in the mud, and I turned my face upwards as if in prayer. I could have wept from the relief of light.

There was no sun; there was no light. I was dying. I couldn't remember what the sky looked like. But I didn't die. I was lost to a sea of cold, and then I was reborn into a world of warmth.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

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.

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

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.

Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.