Resurrection

Resurrection is a central doctrine of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It may refer to the resurrection of biologically dead corpses by divine power or to a purely spiritual resurrection where the 'dead' (human beings who are blind to their spiritual nature and the possibility of salvation) come to Life by means of spiritual awakening and subsequent transformation to a life of holiness.

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• The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound,
  Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound,
  And wake the nations under ground.
  • Wentworth Dillon, On the Day of Judgment, Stanza 3; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 671.

• The trumpet! the trumpet! the dead have all heard:
  Lo, the depths of the stone-cover'd charnels are stirr'd:
  From the sea, from the land, from the south and the north,
  The vast generations of man are come forth.
  • Henry Hart Milman, Hymns for Church Service, Second Sunday in Advent, Stanza 3; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 671.

• Shall man alone, for whom all else revives,
  No resurrection know? Shall man alone,
  Imperial man! be sown in barren ground,
  Less privileged than grain, on which he feeds?
  • Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VI, line 704.

• I see the Judge enthroned; the flaming guard:
  The volume open'd!—open'd every heart!
  • Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night IX, line 262.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

• The resurrection morning is a true sun-rising, the inbursting of a cloudless sky on all the righteous dead. They wake transfigured, at their Maker's call, with the fashion of their countenance altered and shining like His own.
  • Horace Bushnell, p. 519.

• The resurrection state is the culmination of glorified humanity; is the change of the earthly for the heavenly; is the putting off of flesh and blood, and the putting on of the spiritual body. The body of the resurrection is the body with which the spirit is clothed for its celestial life.
  • Randolph Sinks Foster, p. 519.

• I shall see Him with these eyes,
  Him whom I shall surely know;
  Not another shall I rise,
  With His love this heart shall glow;
  Only there shall disappear
  Weakness in and round me here.
  • Louisa Henrietta, p. 519.

• Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
  • Martin Luther, p. 518.

• O, on that glorious day, when all the hosts of God shall have been gathered from Europe and Asia, from Africa and America — when the long-buried armies of the dead shall come forth, spiritual, incorruptible, glorious, immortal — when the sons of God who have kept their first estate, shall sing " unto Him that loved us," and the redeemed from all parts of the earth, and from all the generations, shall respond in a song sweeter than the songs of the morning-stars when all the sons of God shouted for joy,— may you and I be there to join that everlasting song, and realize that bliss unspeakable which is the enduring portion of the Lord's redeemed.
  • John J. Murray, p. 520.

• And shall they rise, all these? Will there be a trumpet blast so shrill that none of them may refuse to hear it, and the soul, re-entering its shrine of eminent or common clay, pass upward to the judgment? " Many and mighty, but all hushed," shall they submit with us to the judgment of the last assize? And in that world is it true that gold is not the currency, and that rank is not hereditary, and that there is only one name that is honored? Then, if this is the end of all men, let the living lay it to heart. Solemn and thoughtful, let us search for an assured refuge; childlike and earnest, let us conf1de in the one accepted Name; let us realize the tender and infinite nearness of God our Father, through Jesus our Surety and our Friend.
  • William Morley Punshon, p. 519.

• How divinely full of glory and pleasure shall that hour be when all the millions of mankind that have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb of God shall meet together and stand around Him, with every tongue and every heart full of joy and praise! How astonishing will be the glory and the joy of that day when all the saints shall join together in one common song of gratitude and love, and of everlasting thankfulness to this Redeemer! With what unknown delight, and inexpressible satisfaction, shall all that are saved from the ruins of sin and hell address the Lamb that was slain, and rejoice in His presence!
  • Isaac Watts, p. 520.