Best Risen Quotes

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

Do not be afraid to go forth and announce the Risen Christ.

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.

The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer.

The sea is not rising. It hasn’t risen in 50 years.

I’ve gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.

From a small spark, Great flame has risen.

Your life of indifference to the risen Christ and of halfhearted attention now and then to a few of his commandments will appear on that day as supremely blameworthy and infinitely foolish, and you will . . . weep that you did not change.8

A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

A friend told me he’d risen above jazz. I leave him there.

The sun has just risen, weak and watery-looking, like it had just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up.

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that’s getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world’s greatest power.

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Oh no, the dead have risen and they’re voting Republican.

The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard – Christ is risen!

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

Every level that I have ever competed on, I have risen to the top.

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again

No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. – Poseidon

Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.

When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it – St. Anger being the fire and Death Magnetic being the phoenix.

Christ is risen from the dead!

Earth’s biggest country ‘s gut her soul, An’ risen up earth’s greatest nation.

Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.

We could not take one step in the pursuit of holiness if God in His grace had not first delivered us from the dominion of sin and brought us into union with His risen Son. Salvation is by grace and sanctification is by grace.

O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost when utterance clear To all men shall be given, When all shall say My Brother here, And hear My Son in heaven!

The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world’s population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely.

Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we follow that advice we shall have to close our Bible and desert its teachings. The New Testament is a polemic book almost from beginning to end … It is when men have felt compelled to take a stand against error that they have risen to the really great heights in the celebration of the truth