Quotes about Rising

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.

Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote.

Of course, we all know that dying, rising again, Christ in me, hidden in God, seated in heaven are metaphors—the use of common language to grasp the uncommon, a reality too deep and thick for conventional vocabulary. Following Jesus is an inside-out transformation so thorough that dying and coming back to life is the only adequate way to put it.

Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.

If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.

Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.

We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility.

Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?

But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

The justification of my life before God is to live because of and toward the living, dying, and rising of Jesus Christ.

You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.