"Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them."

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"Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them."

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"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."

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"We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough."

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"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."

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"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."

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"Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another."

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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

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"Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal."

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"Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this."

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"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."

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"The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position."

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"Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart."

Attitude

"Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did."

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"If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem."

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"The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place."

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"Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents."

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"Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion."

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"Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb."

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"Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace."

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"I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is."

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