Top 372 Risen Quotes & Sayings

Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'

We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.

The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen, living Jesus has faded in many [churches] can be basically blamed on the fact that our churches are insufficiently 'communities' of God. Where the church of Jesus Christ lives, and lives a liberating life in the footsteps of Jesus, the resurrection faith undergoes no crisis. On the other hand, it is better not to believe in God than to believe in a God who minimizes human beings, holds them under and oppresses them, with a view to a better world to come.

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

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

Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said!

Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all the earth's at play.

The Apostle Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost of the risen Savior, says, "God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." And He speaks of Him as the anointed One, exalted at God's right hand. The Gospel is the Gospel of the Risen Christ. There would be no Gospel for sinners if Christ had not been raised. So the apostle says, "If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins"

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

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

I've always risen to the challenge and faced adversity; it's just a part of who I am.

It is true that not even Christ is seen, but he exists; he is risen, he is alive, he is close to us, more truly than the most enamored husband is close to his wife. Here is the crucial point: to think of Christ not as a person of the past, but as the risen and living Lord, with whom I can speak, whom I can even kiss if I so wish, certain that my kiss does not end on the paper or on the wood of a crucifix, but on a face and on the lips of living flesh (even though spiritualized), happy to receive my kiss.

The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

I am the man who has risen from rags to riches.

Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.

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

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

But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

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

Minorities, Dalits, farmers, students, writers - all have faced the brunt of the Narendra Modi government and risen in protest.

If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses - you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future.

During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were $475 million and, by 1865, had risen to one billion, three-hundred million dollars. On the income side of the ledger, taxes covered only about eleven per cent of that figure. By the end of the war, the deficit had risen to $2.61 billion. That money had to come from somewhere.

The resurrection is the keystone of the arch on which our faith is supported. If Christ has not risen, we must impeach all those witnesses for lying. If Christ has not risen, we have no proof that the crucifixion of Jesus differed from that of the two thieves who suffered with him. If Christ has not risen, it is impossible to believe his atoning death was accepted.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

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

Lord Voldermort Has Risen Again.

...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

From a small spark, Great flame has risen.

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

First, draw off your hearts, because Jesus Christ, the Head, is risen and ascended upon high, and there sits at the right hand of His Father; and if the Head is in heaven, where should the members be but where the Head is? Shall Christ our Head be in heaven, and shall our hearts, which are His members, lie groveling on the ground and panting after the dust of the earth, making all our inquiry and labor after these? 'If Christ our Head be risen, seek those things that are above, where Christ sits at God's right hand.'

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

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

Americans have always risen to the moment, from defeating the scourge of fascism to bringing down the Iron Curtain.

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

Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.

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

The G-20,with all its inadequacies, is a mixed group of the world's rising and risen powers.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

Meatloaf has never quite risen above its name. It offers comfort and predictability, but rarely fireworks.

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

Had Christ not risen we could not believe Him to be what He declared Himself when He "made Himself equal with God." But He has risen in the confirmation of all His claims. By it alone, but by it thoroughly, is He manifested as the very Son of God, who has come into the world to reconcile the world to Himself. It is the fundamental fact in the Christian's unwavering confidence in "all the words of this life.

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? "Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?" NO "Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact." THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN. ... "Really? Then what would have happened, pray?" A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD.

The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.

Interest in the Founders has risen and fallen over time, as has admiration for them and their accomplishments.

I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.

But He is risen, a later star of dawn.

We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

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

The tide of my love Has risen so high let me flood over You.

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

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Your God still walks in Eden, between the ancient trees, Where Youth and Love go wading through pools of primroses. And this is the sign we bring you, before the darkness fall, That Spring is risen, is risen again, That Life is risen, is risen again, That Love is risen, is risen again, and Love is Lord of all.

Christ is risen from the dead!

Phil Handy played for me in England and has obviously risen to stardom in his area of what he does.

If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters.

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.