resurrection quotes

He had often noticed that six months'oblivion amounts to newspaper death, and that resurrection is rare. Nothing is easier, if a manwants it, thanrest, profound as the grave.

- Henry Brooks Adams
  The Education of Henry  Adams, ch.22.

   I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John11:25.

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians15:20^2.

We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope ofthe Resurrectionto eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

-Book of Common Prayer
Burial of the Dead, Committal.

We therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for theresurrection of the body, (when the Sea shall give up her dead).

-Book of Common Prayer
Forms of Prayer to be Used at Sea,  At the Burial of their Dead at Sea.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his own propertyat the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

- Samuel Butler
Collected in Further Extracts from the Notebooks (1934).