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Lord Voldermort Has Risen Again. -- J. K. Rowling
Do not be afraid to go forth and announce the Risen Christ, -- Pope Francis
O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the world Thine own. -- Phillips Brooks
On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless. -- Daniel Webster
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. -- Desmond Morris
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. -- George Eliot
Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step. -- Deng Xiaoping
Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation. -- Robert Reich
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man. -- Ho Chi Minh
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. -- C. S. Lewis
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. -- Robert Staughton Lynd
Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of retail jobs has risen 43 percent. -- Bill Dedman
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end. -- Lawrence Clark Powell
I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe. -- Dan Quayle
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.' -- Phillips Brooks
Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy. -- Martin Van Buren
Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people. -- Janet Yellen
Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix. -- Kirk Hammett
To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ. -- Tullian Tchividjian
One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet. -- Orville Wright
I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I'm claiming that I'm an artist of some kind. -- Brian Eno
Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city. -- John James Audubon
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. -- John C. Calhoun
My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish communities around the world, that the veil would be lifted, and that we would see a massive turning of Israel to the Lord Jesus. -- John Piper
In the first gospel, Mark, the risen Christ appears physically to no one, but by the time we come to the last gospel, John, Thomas is invited to feel the nail prints in Christ's hands and feet and the spear wound in his side. -- John Shelby Spong
I was thinking recently, I've always loved the ocean. If I could do it all again, I might do an oceanography degree. You can do ocean archaeology, and I thought that might be fascinating to do - man-made structures, where the sea has risen above the structures. -- Theo James
As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds. -- Darell Hammond
I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last few years, Georgia has definitely kind of risen to the top as far as the crop of young artists coming out of this area that are kind of making waves, you know? -- Jason Aldean
We sometimes get so caught up in one or another aspect of the teaching, we forget that if a person hasn't been introduced to Christ, if a person hasn't embraced the risen Lord and the church that's an expression of that experience, what we're saying just sounds like a bunch of rules or negative statements limiting their personal freedom. -- Donald Wuerl
Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation. -- Wole Soyinka
Christ is risen from the dead! -- Keith Green
From a small spark, Great flame has risen. -- Dante Alighieri
Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children. -- Karen Russell
But He is risen, a later star of dawn. -- William Wordsworth
The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes. -- John Green
We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels. -- Robert Ardrey
I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground. -- Marvin L. Cohen
Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican. -- Yeardley Smith
The sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years. -- Nils-Axel Morner
Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end. -- John of Damascus
My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed. -- Richard Lewis
A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past. -- Eleanor Catton
A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there. -- Michael S. Harper
The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen. -- Marge Piercy
That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again -- Rumi
Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all the earth's at play. -- Christina Rossetti
Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation. -- James Russell Lowell
Your hope is not in a sun rise, but in a Son risen! -- Paul Guilda
Every level that I have ever competed on, I have risen to the top. -- Sheryl Swoopes
The tide of my love Has risen so high let me flood over You. -- Hafez
A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse. -- Pat Robertson
If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters. -- Jaroslav Pelikan
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. -- Lesslie Newbigin
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. -- H. P. Lovecraft
No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. - Poseidon -- Rick Riordan
Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk. -- Christopher Smart
I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life. -- Theodore Parker
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. -- Jacques Barzun
The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen! -- Soren Kierkegaard
I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond. -- Christian Wiman
At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen. -- I. L. Peretz
No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I've always risen to the challenge and faced adversity; it's just a part of who I am. -- Erik Rutan
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed. -- Frederick Douglass
When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself. -- Oswald Chambers
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. -- Samuel Johnson
Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen. -- Mother Teresa
Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now. -- Paul F. M. Zahl
Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer. -- Henrik Ibsen
Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you. -- Naomi Klein
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection! -- Henry Ward Beecher
The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer. -- Peter Marshall
We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat. -- Terry Pratchett
The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists. -- Bernard Bailyn
Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer. -- Alison Gopnik
I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan. -- Shigeru Yoshida
It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above. -- Will Cuppy
We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death -- Nelson Mandela
...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. -- George Stigler
He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts. -- Markus Zusak
It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive, it is so much more. The message of Easter is that Jesus has risen! -- Colin S. Smith
The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from the dead." -- Robert Runcie
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
The sun has just risen, weak and watery-looking, like it had just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up. -- Lauren Oliver
The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen. -- Ben Dreyfuss
If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this? -- David Ricardo
I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. -- C. S. Lewis
I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon. -- Robert Bly
The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires? -- Nirmala Srivastava
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
When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth. -- Akhenaton
Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said! -- Keith Green
I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a risen race. -- Frances Harper
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity. -- Gerry Adams
Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass! -- Vera Nazarian
Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits you with open arms. -- Pope Francis
Sunday is the best day of the week because we celebrate the risen Christ of the cross in the local church, the dearest place on earth. -- C. J. Mahaney
Step by step i have risen but it was hard in the beginning but now the clouds are my ground and now my haters are clowns -- Kayla Davis
Here is the reality-as I've been saying for longer than I can remember, Scott Walker is a mediocre county executive who has risen far beyond his talents. -- Rick Ungar
Come seeking to know Him, and I promise you will find Him and see Him in His true character as the risen, redeeming Savior of the world. -- Alexander B. Morrison
In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis. -- Jay Leno
There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art. -- Evelyn Waugh
As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen. -- Henry Giroux
We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death. -- Pope Benedict XVI
[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy. -- William Safire
At a time when the public is sour on politicians, have no use for them, Bill Clinton has risen to a different level. Bill Clinton is endlessly interesting. -- Mark Shields
A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above. -- Marianne Williamson
There is nothing better - nothing - than knowing that the risen Christ lives right now in heaven, singing over his people - singing over me - with love. -- Reggie M. Kidd
My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it. -- Charlaine Harris
No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself. -- Woodrow Wilson
All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day. -- George Washington Carver
Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things. -- Ole Hallesby
The cable industry has risen to new heights in their apparent willingness and ability to gouge the American consumer. Cable rates [have] increased an unbelievable five-and-a-half times faster than inflation. -- John McCain
The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived. -- Bill Bryson
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise." -- Phillips Brooks

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