Spring is here now, and Resurrection Sunday is just a few days away. So, to celebrate, I've put together this quote post, my first one, and hopefully not my last. It's a small collection of quotes and verses about Grace, the Death and Resurrection of Christ, and the Promise of the World to Come.
It's so easy to forget what really matters, but this is a time to remember, to re-center ourselves around the Story. And a time to rejoice and be glad in what God has done. A time to remember that He has kept His Promise, and He will keep them forever. A time to look back, and to look forward, and know that He will make all things new. So, I hope this is an encouragement and blessing to you.
"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." Genesis 3:15 ESV
"Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner. Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son: "Ye were bought at a price," and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us. Above all, it is grace because God did not reckon his Son too dear a price to pay for our life, but delivered him up for us. Costly grace is the Incarnation of God." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
"If we love because He first loved us... do we now care, because we know He did first care, has always cared, will always care- and has the nail scars to definitively prove it." Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts Devotional
"And it's here, even here, this slender pin at the center of the globe- that slides certain under the violently grinding plates and a surging ocean wall and all our fissured lives, and it's the Word of the Word-God who took the shaft and keeps His promises and names Himself the Father of the Needy." Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts Devotional
"Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die, I risk my whole eternity on the Resurrection." -Charles Spurgeon
"Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors." Isaiah 53:12
"Have patience, believer: eternity will right the wrongs of time." -Charles Spurgeon
"Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”
1st Corinthians 15:51-55, ESV
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” -C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
"Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead." -C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
And I am standing in the stillness of the reckoning
The storm is past and rest is beckoning
Mighty God, how I fear you
How I long to be near you, O Lord
How long until the burden is lifted?
How long is this the song that we sing?
How long until the reckoning?
And I know that I don't know what I'm asking
But I long to look you full in the face
I am ready for the reckoning
(Lyrics from Andrew Peterson, from the song The Reckoning.)
"And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among the people, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.” Revelation 21:3-4 NASB
May you be blessed as you remember, and rejoice,
Abby
Note: None of these quotes are mine and I do not claim them as such. The people quoted above I do not necessarily endorse in all that they say, do, or have done. These quotes are just pieces of what they've said, and there may be more they have said that I don't agree with or endorse, in fact I know I don't agree with all they've said. But I did try to pick from people that I would recommend to others. And of course, I will always recommend the Bible.
All pictures used are my own, and all quote pictures have been designed by me using free stock elements and fonts to my knowledge.
The verses used are taken from the English Standard Version and the New American Standard Bible, and are highlighted in bold to make them stand out in the text.