Top 100 Quotes About Lazarus: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Lazarus

#1. Father Abraham, send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. There is a frightful meaning in those words. May you never have to spell it out by the red light of Jehovah's wrath!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#2. That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.

Sid Waddell

#3. Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth."

David Bowie

#4. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed" (Mat 8:3). To one who had lain in the grave four days He cried, "Lazarus, come forth," and the dead came forth. The stormy wind and the angry waves were hushed at a single word from Him. A legion of demons could not resist His authoritative command.

Arthur W. Pink

#5. Where's the bit about Lazarus? he asked.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29 October 1962

Sylvia Plath

#7. The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.

Austin O'Malley

#8. It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

Sara Zarr

#9. And did the biblical Lazarus have a mother? What did she do when he was resurrected? Did he bid her good-bye before he returned to his undeath? Was he the same son to her undead as he was alive? I read that he sailed to Marseilles with his sisters afterward, where he may or may not have died again.

Aleksandar Hemon

#10. The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children

Richard Dawkins

#11. Majesty. The word seemed to ripple through her. "I haven't been crowned, Lazarus." "No matter, Lady. I see the queenship in you, and I never saw it in your mother, not one day of her life.

Erika Johansen

#12. The sages have a hundred maps to give
That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree
They rattle reason out through many a sieve
That stores the sand but lets the gold go free
And all these things are less than dust to me
Because my name is Lazarus and I live.

G.K. Chesterton

#13. Are you my father, Lazarus?"
Mace's mouth twisted. "No, Lady. I wish I was. I wanted to be. But I am not.

Erika Johansen

#14. Our Beasts and our Thieves and our Chattels
Have weight for good or for ill;
But the Poor are only His image,
His presence, His word, His will; -
And so Lazarus lies at our doorstep
And Dives neglects him still.

Adelaide Anne Procter

#15. Ash, ash - -
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there
A cake of soap,
A wedding ring,
A gold filling.
Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Beware
Beware.
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
From the poem Lady Lazarus

Sylvia Plath

#16. Rape culture is a concept of unknown origin and of uncertain definition; yet it has made its way into everyday vocabulary and is assumed to be commonly understood. The award-winning documentary film Rape Culture made by Margaret Lazarus in 1975 takes credit for first defining the concept

Joyce E. Williams

#17. I missed you, Lazarus. More than I missed the sunlight, even.

Erika Johansen

#18. All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

Mark Twain

#19. Every day another miracle
Only death will tear us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart

Sting

#20. Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book's full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What's that if it's not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!

Clive Barker

#21. Like Lazarus lying motionless in the tomb, the unredeemed soul remains lifeless until the voice of God commands it, "Come forth!

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#22. When it fails, they do call it madness, Lazarus. But when it succeeds, they call it genius.

Erika Johansen

#23. I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

Steven Curtis Chapman

#24. Empathy. Carlin always said it was the great value of fiction, to put us inside the minds of strangers. Lazarus,

Erika Johansen

#25. Out of the lions' den for Daniel, the prison for Peter, the whale's belly for Jonah, Goliath's shadow for David the storm for the disciples, disease for the lepers, doubt for Thomas, the grave for Lazarus, and the shackles for Paul. God gets us through stuff.

Max Lucado

#26. We can no more assist the Holy Spirit in the quickening of our souls to spiritual life than Lazarus could help Jesus raise him from the dead.

R.C. Sproul

#27. If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

Robert A. Heinlein

#28. The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus.

Annie Dillard

#29. A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If he cried over Jerusalem, if he cried over the death of Lazarus, surely he was crying now over the death of her dreams, the death of her marriage.

Karen Kingsbury

#30. We follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.

C.S. Lewis

#31. Oh, by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus!

Hilary Mantel

#32. This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.

Dorothy Day

#33. The story of Lazarus not only demonstrates Christ's divine power over death (both physical and spiritual); it also demonstrates the converse theological truth
namely, that the dead cannot raise themselves.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#34. 1891-1892 Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles. 1883 The New Colossus by EMMA LAZARUS, written to raise funds to complete the Statue of Liberty

John Jakes

#35. If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people.
Lazarus Long.

Robert A. Heinlein

#36. I realized with alarm that I hadn't learned how to save anyone at all, not Dr. Sanders or Lazarus or Jimmy or Saul or Anna O., and that what I was thrilled about was learning how to save myself.

Samuel Shem

#37. The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.

Charles Spurgeon

#38. It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#39. Remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

Anonymous

#40. In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

Whittaker Chambers

#41. Vote?" Matthew said, incredulous. "Since when did we vote in this family?" "Since Marcus took over the Knights of Lazarus," Gallowglass replied, drawing a silver lighter from his pocket. "We've been choking on democracy since the day you left.

Deborah Harkness

#42. The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.

George Whitefield

#43. Representing the struggle that Muslim minorities go through today is something I personally experience. So I know that at the end of the day, I have a voice for many millions of people who don't have any representation at all.

Lazarus Of Bethany

#44. I need my own armor, and soon. A silly queen I'll look when I've been slowly flattened into a man."

Mace grinned. "You wouldn't be the first queen of this kingdom to be mistaken for a king.

Erika Johansen

#45. I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

Emma Lazarus

#46. Profound changes are imminent in the ancient craft of the beautiful.

Jason Lazarus

#47. There will always be good and bad in every community.

Lazarus Of Bethany

#48. Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

Emma Lazarus

#49. Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.

M. E. Lazarus

#50. Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate ...

Emma Lazarus

#51. We have our mission and we are going to complete it. So grab your straws and suck it the fuck up.

Greg Rucka

#52. Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.

Emma Lazarus

#53. I don't try to rap about or emulate the life of another person.

Lazarus Of Bethany

#54. Maybe I like that you're available."
Oh, the romance. Her voice as dry as dirt, she said, "How am I not throwing myself at you right this very second?"
"It's a definite mystery.

Gena Showalter

#55. Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

Emma Lazarus

#56. I don't have any problem with coverage of victims in France. My heart goes out to anyone who was hurt or killed over there.

Lazarus Of Bethany

#57. Armageddon (the final battle between good and evil; the word is taken from a plain near the Israeli city of Megiddo where the showdown is supposed to take place).

William P. Lazarus

#58. Rapping about a surgery is something that makes sense for me to do.

Lazarus Of Bethany

#59. Don't underestimate the value people place on authenticity. Politicians listen to the focus groups and say the things they think people want to hear. But after 30 years of reading consumers, I know that they can smell phonies.

Rochelle B Lazarus

#60. Business can't trump happiness.

Rochelle B Lazarus

#61. What is it you do for your family? Aside from trying to put it in your sister, I mean?

Greg Rucka

#62. Only when something ends can we understand what it has meant. In

Margaret Lazarus Dean

#63. Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

Emma Lazarus

#64. The history of American spaceflight is a history of doing less than had been planned, less than had been hoped for.

Margaret Lazarus Dean

#65. We are all humans and all deserve the same respect and attention.

Lazarus Of Bethany

#66. Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.

Emma Lazarus

#67. No movie becomes a hit without good reviews and word-of-mouth. No agency ever became a great brand by merely saying it was great - in advertising or by any other medium.

Rochelle B Lazarus

#68. When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.

Emma Lazarus

#69. Most people don't realize that since the time of Apollo we've been in a feedback loop: as a nation, we elect representatives who thwart NASA, and then we blame NASA for its lack of vision.

Margaret Lazarus Dean

#70. Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.

Robert A. Heinlein

#71. Let our first care today be the re-establishment of our physical strength, the reconstruction of our national organism, so that in future, where the respect due to us cannot be won by entreaty, it may be commanded, and where it cannot be commanded, it may be enforced.

Emma Lazarus

#72. To have mentors and moguls like Russell Simmons and Chuck D pushing me forward and empowering my movement makes me all the more eager to continue pursuing my dream to make my mark on hip hop music and culture.

Lazarus Of Bethany

#73. I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

Emma Lazarus

#74. A cake can be very life-affirming.

Faye Kellerman

#75. To me, part of being an emcee is dedicated to speaking out about what's going on around us.

Lazarus Of Bethany

#76. The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark.

Emma Lazarus

#77. My philosophy has always been to stand with all countries and all humanity.

Lazarus Of Bethany

#78. But when launches were delayed, everything moved into a strange sort of limbo...a launch that was supposed to have gone up one morning but wouldn't attempt again until the next made us all feel we were living in a day that didn't count, a day between parentheses.

Margaret Lazarus Dean

#79. The Jewish problem is as old as history, and assumes in each age a new form. The life or death of millions of human beings hangs upon its solution; its agitation revives the fiercest passions for good and for evil that inflame the human breast.

Emma Lazarus

#80. Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

Emma Lazarus

#81. For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach.

Greg Rucka

#82. The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

Mell Lazarus

#83. What have you taken from me, and from what have you taken me?

John Connolly

#84. The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.

Emma Lazarus

#85. I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

Emma Lazarus

#86. ...and when I pretended to Portia or myself that the dark stuff couldn't touch me, that was a lie.

Brenna Yovanoff

#87. The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

Emma Lazarus

#88. People care about the unutterable awe of American heroes stabbing into the heavens on columns of fire.

Margaret Lazarus Dean

#89. No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define
what is a bird.

Emma Lazarus

#90. Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Emma Lazarus

#91. Last year NASA's total budget was less than the cost of air-conditioning for troops in Iraq.

Margaret Lazarus Dean

#92. I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life.

Lazarus Of Bethany

#93. Kindle the taper like the steadfast star
Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth,
And add each night a lustre till afar
An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

Emma Lazarus