Tomb Is Empty Quotes

#1. They each walked with a limp, because
the lifelong journey of grief was setting in. My mom looked at my dad and said, "Remind me what we believe. What do we believe?"
After a few moments, my dad responded with these words: "The tomb is empty. The tomb is empty.

Josh Ross

#2. The cross, as poignant as it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered by crooked politicians and religious leaders. But the empty tomb
what can you say? Only a supernatural God could accomplish that.

Jim Cymbala

#3. At the same time, in death he would succeed where all others had failed, so that instead of an angel guarding the entrance to God's presence so we cannot enter in, we find an angel at the empty tomb telling us that Christ has gotten out.

Kevin DeYoung

#4. The tomb of the Saviour was a narrow and empty vault, precious only for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the centuries, but the new continent was to be the home and temple of the living God.

Chauncey Depew

#5. The tomb was empty-the greatest security breach of all time.Yet that event gives lasting security to all God's people.

David Jeremiah

#6. I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead

Amy Hatvany

#7. Reasonably speaking, we can see the cross as entirely possible. But in considering Easter, we see an empty tomb as entirely impossible. And is it possible that God had to do the impossible to finally get our attention?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus' resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.

William Lane Craig

#9. The more purely God's word is preached, the more deeply it pierces and the more kindly it works.

William Gouge

#10. This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.

John Clare

#11. Be prepared to reinvent yourself. Be prepared to go out on a limb occasionally, and be prepared to do the things that you feel strongly about

Hillman Curtis

#12. Before an empty tomb, we will come to know that Christ our Lord has burst the bands of death and stands forever triumphant over the grave.

Bruce R. McConkie

#13. God emptied out that first tomb so that He could turn around and empty out me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

Josh McDowell

#15. The empty tomb stands, a veritable rock, as an essential element in the evidence for the resurrection. To suggest that it was not in fact empty at all, as some have done, seems to me ridiculous.

Norman Anderson

#16. I think no one knows my politics.

Diane Sawyer

#17. The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

Josh McDowell

#18. For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb.

Gustave Flaubert

#19. Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

Charles Spurgeon

#20. And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed ...
He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.
I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#21. When I was a kid, they had a saying, 'to err is human but to really fuck it up takes a computer.'

Benjamin R. Smith

#22. For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.

Robert Southey

#23. When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and one in five was black - some were free, some slaves.

Martin O'Malley

#24. You will have a choice: to adjust how you live daily or to stay the same.

Francis Chan

#25. There is no way back. No other explanations have been offered, in two thousand years of sneering skepticism toward the Christian witness, that can satisfactorily account for how the tomb came to be empty, how the disciples came to see Jesus, and how their lives and worldviews were transformed.

N. T. Wright

#26. Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.

Fulton J. Sheen

#27. I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Beth Moore

#29. Despite the fact that life has repeatedly reinforced my conviction that the tomb was empty, some of my most profound errors have occurred when I was straining under the weight of a death that was in reality the liberation of a transition.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#30. Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God's beginning.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#31. We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.

Craig D. Lounsbrough