The Resurrection Quotes

“If Jesus appeared just like that in the middle of your living room, but this apparition was not enclosed in the monstrance of the revealed Word starting with Moses, the prophets, and the Psalms, you would be incapable of grasping its significance. You would take him for Zeus, Mary Poppins, or a traveling salesman, not for the Messiah.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“5:8)—a feeling of unworthiness that still smacks of pride, because despite everything I am the one who decides whether or not I am worthy, and I remain at the level of retribution, shirking the order of grace.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“The Good News escapes the parameters of news: it is not information for everyone, but a call to each. Return”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“Basically, money and the resurrection are opposed as two systems of possibility: the system of the virtual and the system of the living.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“Avarice is the fixation of this waking dream, purse in hand. The avaricious person rejoices in all the purchases that he could make, and in order to keep them all within reach of his pocket, he makes none of them.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“The true superior does not strut and preen: he stoops and extends a hand.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“the pacifists, who by their passivity made themselves accomplices of the destroyers.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“In everything God works for good with those who love him (Rom 8:28).”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“Esmeralda [in Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame] is afraid to look up at Quasimodo while she gladly pets his nanny-goat with its horns and hooves, so that Quasimodo groans, ‘My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I would like to be entirely a beast, like this she-goat.’ If the Bohemian beauty had taken Quasimodo as an entirely separate species and not as a deformed specimen of humanity, no doubt she would have learned to cuddle up to him without disgust, just like a cute little lamb, which, if she were to judge it by classical ideals for the young male human figure, would appear to her like a hideous monster.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“The new arch-apostle soon sinks into fundamentalism, not because he is archaic, but because he is high-tech. He wants others to react to his harangue as quickly as an Intel processor. And he forgets that, according to Jesus, the average spiritual reactivity that a preacher has a right to hope for from his listeners is much inferior than that of a tortoise or a snail. Instead it is that of a plant: the sure slowness of sprouting and taking root. He said so explicitly: Where the seeds had not much soil, immediately they sprang up (cf. Mt 13:5). Fishers”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“The model of engineering is mechanical: the model of agriculture resembles the Socratic method. The engineer imposes forms on nature understood as a stockpile of energies and materials; the farmer accompanies the deployment of a natural form of which he is not the maker.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“a fortiori,”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“So Luke reports the replacement of Judas by Matthias, before Pentecost can take place (Acts 1:15-26).”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“A fuel or energy source (natural gas, gasoline, electricity) simply makes a machine run. When you don’t supply it, the machine continues to exist. It has stopped, but it does not die. The fuel does not reconstitute. It does not keep the motor in existence, nor the chassis, nor any other piece whatsoever of the automobile. Food, in contrast, not only furnishes the calories that enable the body to function; more fundamentally it contributes to the subsistence, the growth, and then even the fecundity of the individual whom it nourishes.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“yesterday, the woman communicated the lie to the man; today, Mary must proclaim the Risen Lord to men. And, by symmetry, whereas the forbidden fruit could be touched but not eaten, Jesus, who is also the living Bread (Jn 6:51), must not be touched but may be eaten. The one who says Do not touch me is in fact the same one who said a few verses earlier: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you (Jn 6:53).”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“the demon of fear of events, with its fur bristling in anticipation of a caress; the demon of worldly piety, which lifts itself up by creeping like ivy; the demon of proud science, hiding its horns beneath a university mortarboard; the demon of quick-tempered strength that is incapable of enduring the least vexation; the demon of bad counsel, that tells you all the tricks by which to climb the rungs of hell; the demon of artificial intelligence, that believes that thought is perfected not in praise but in calculation; the demon of the wisdom of spirituality websites, which provide you with “well-being, interior freedom, harmony, and serenity in everyday life” by assuring you that you are the reincarnation of an empress and that your boss is only an illusion. Our Mary, who is neither a saint nor a virgin, had all it would take to succeed in high society. No such luck, or perhaps by the grace of God, whichever you prefer: there she was, deprived of the seven keys to success and commanded by the Risen Lord to relate an impossible story to a bunch of dullards. To”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“It is quite possible to read the Gospel as a police investigation, as long you realize its structure is more surprising than an Agatha Christie mystery, or even Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“a particular example of a more general rule: that of letting an older person have your seat on a bus, because even though we can run faster, we should recognize that that person nevertheless has taken more steps than we have.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. But”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“faith in the resurrection happens to destroy two contrary beliefs, each of which is rather convenient on its own terms: the belief in the immortality of the soul alone, and the belief in death as total annihilation. Annihilation allows you to bury with you all your unknown crimes. Exclusively spiritual immortality allows you to disdain the body in this world and to accept death as a release from prison. These two ways out are now impossible.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“Salome comes from Shalom, Peace, the first word of the Risen One to the Apostles).”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“Digital technology is in fact the ultimate stage of cash. The digitalization of the world through the Internet is the final step in the monetization of the world through money.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“This logos of money has the advantage of being quantifiable and, above all, quantifying. It puts you in control rather than into a relationship of trust. With it, you do not found your existence on faith in a life that is stronger than death, but on belief in theft, in necessary exploitation, in the inevitable trafficking in bodies, while we sleep peacefully in our beds.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“There is already a publication entitled Suicide: A User’s Guide: it catalogues rather quick techniques for stopping your heart or blowing your brains out. Alas, with the resurrection we cannot claim such efficiency. Although it is relatively easy to put an end to one’s own life, it is on the other hand much harder to get it to start again. You do not pull yourself up from six feet under the way you throw yourself out of a sixth-story window. I am capable of removing myself from the company of the living; not of raising myself from the dead.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. Archbishop of Philadelphia”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“The Risen Lord is not one of those supermen. His glory espouses the everyday. Scarcely has he attained the pinnacle of perfection than he finds nothing better to do than to meet with his friends for conversation and a meal.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“especially for someone who is almighty, these are, all in all, rather limited effects. And with good reason! If he had made an entire city spring up from the ground, people would run the risk of forgetting that he has already created the whole universe.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“After all, there is something better than doing extraordinary things: illuminating ordinary things from within.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ