Phillips Brooks Quotes

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of this holy gift, you must truly receive it, and then you must use it in your life. How sad it would be to be given such a precious gift and then set it aside and never use it.

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

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

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

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.'

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

I cannot express to you how grateful I am that I am a Christian. Before I was a Christian, I went through a time in my life where I just didn't know why I was alive.

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

We will all rise from the grave.

As the hart desires the spring of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see You in truth.

We live like we are on a pleasure cruise, when we are really on a rescue mission from God.

I believe my life has been covered by grace since I trusted in Christ at age 13. I just had to turn 40 to notice.

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God's saving, sovereign kingdom.

The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the light of illumination, present in every soul, every flower, every atom!

Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.