Shri Mataji: "The greatest Message (of Christ) which we have actualized now in Sahaja Yoga."
"The cross is the victory, the resurrection is the triumph...The
resurrection is the public display of the victory, the triumph of the
crucified one."
Eric Sauer
"Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub."
Richard R. Niebuhr
"Christianity begins where religion ends...with the resurrection."
Herbert Booth Smith
"Jesus cannot forget us; we have been graven on the palms of his hands."
Lois Picillo
"The cross of Christ shows us that God's love is of deepest descent... universal distribution and of eternal duration."
Dr. Fred Barlow
"The stone was rolled away from the door, not to permit Christ to come out, but to enable the disciples to go in.""
Peter Marshall
"And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.""
St. Augustine
"Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.""
Charles M. Crowe
"Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.""
Floyd W. Tomkins
"He is risen; he is not here."
Mark 16:6
"This is the promise that He hath promised us, even eternal life."
1 John 2:25
"The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It tells us that the spiritual is higher than the material; that in this universe spirit counts for more than matter."
H.P. Liddon
"I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die."
John 11:25-26
"Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death."
Soren Kierkegaard
"Now let the heavens be joyful,
Let earth her song begin:
Let the round world keep triumph,
And all that is therein;
Invisible and visible,
Their notes let all things blend,
For Christ the Lord is risen
Our joy that hath no end."
John of Damascus
"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."
Pope John Paul II
"Awake, thou wintry earth-Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness! Christ is risen."
Thomas Blackburn
"In the bonds of Death He lay
Who for our offence was slain;
But the Lord is risen to-day,
Christ hath brought us life again,
Wherefore let us all rejoice,
Singing loud, with cheerful voice,
Hallelujah!"
Martin Luther
"'Christ the Lord is risen to-day,' Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply."
Charles Wesley
"In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot perish. It will germinate when the warm south wind of Christ's return brings back the spring-tide to this cold sin-cursed earth of ours; and then they that are in their graves, and we who shall lie down in ours, will feel in our mortal bodies the power of His resurrection, and will come forth to life immortal."
David Gregg
"Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.'"
John 11:25-26 NIV
"But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him."
Acts 2:24 NIV
"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers."
1 John 3:16 NIV
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
John 3:16 NIV
"The great gift of Easter is hope Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake."
Basil C. Hume
"To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ."
Bernhard Langer
"The name of Jesus is the one lever that lifts the world."
Anonymous
"Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned."
Henry Drummond
"No man can follow Christ and go astray."
William H.P. Faunce
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi “I am happy to know so many of you have come here and I feel this is a very important Puja, not only for Australia but for the whole world, because it has the greatest Message which we have actualized now in Sahaja Yoga. We have to understand the Message of Christ.
There are many people in this world who try to show off that they are very great rationalists and they have a right to pass any remark they like about Christ. I was reading the newspapers today. I was surprised where they are all saying one by one that, "I reject this part of Christ that He was born with Immaculate Conception. I reject that He was resurrected. I reject this and I reject that." Who are you? Because you can write, because you have a flair, how can you say such things? Just without finding out, you are a scholar, maybe you are very well read, maybe that you think you are capable of saying whatever you like about any subject, but subject of spirituality cannot be dealt by people who are not even Self-Realized.”
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Resurrection; Helping Each Other, Easter Puja Talk,
Sydney, Australia, April 3, 1994
“In the evolutionary process, how many will become Sahaja Yogis, I can’t say? And once, look at the world, then you start feeling that most of it is going to be destroyed or finished. Most of the people are not going to be there. Not that we are not available, but because they are not fated to come to Sahaja Yoga. They’re not meant to come to Sahaja Yoga.
So, you’re so fortunate that you have got your Realization, your Resurrection, but now have faith in that Resurrection of yours. In your Resurrection that is your being now and with that you will know how precious you are for the whole world and that what you have to do is not to think of material gains, physical gains or some emotional gains, but spiritual gains.”
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Resurrection; Faith, Easter Puja,
Rome, Italy, April 11, 1993
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"Now, the principle of Mother is in every, every scripture - has to be there." Shri Mataji, Radio Interview 1983 Oct 01, Santa Cruz, USA
