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Ressurection and the Light

by [Kaeirdwyn]



-The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.
~~~Robert Flatt

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

-Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.
~~~Arthur Schopenhauer

-Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.
~~~Ingrid Bengis

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

-It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
~~~Voltaire

-The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
~~~William Lloyd Garrison

-Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead yet shall he live.
~~~John 11:25, The Holy Bible

-Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
~~~Marianne Williamson

-In the attitude of silence the soul finds The path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
~~~Mahatma Gandhi

-Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
~~~Helen Keller

-Sometimes our Light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
~~~Albert Schweizer

-I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
~~~Abraham Lincoln

-Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
~~~Rabindranath Tagore

-If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deathsand resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
~~~William Jennings Bryan

-Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
~~~Victor Hugo




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