Peter Marshall Quotes

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

Jesus ruined every funeral he attended including his own.

Who was Jesus? God saves.

We laugh, we cry, we work, we play, we love, we live. And then we die. ... And dead we would remain but for one Man and His mission, even Jesus of Nazareth. ... With all my heart and the fervency of my soul, I lift up my voice in testimony as a special witness and declare that God does live. Jesus is His Son, the Only Begotten of the Father in the flesh. He is our Redeemer; He is our Mediator with the Father. He it was who died on the cross to atone for our sins. He became the firstfruits of the Resurrection. Because He died, all shall live again.

As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.

The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.

There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.

Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!

I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was.

Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.

Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideous and repulsive as a cross stained with the blood of Jesus.An unopened grave would never have opened heaven.

When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!

The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

I believe in life after death.

When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE.