Various thoughts on the Resurrection

So as we head into the most important holiday of them all, I thought I would give you some quotes that I found in a book entitled "Vintage Jesus." These thoughts represent the various views of Christ. All of the following quotes are reflecting on the resurrection.

"His death on the cross was a great example to the world, but that there was anything like a mysterious or miraculous virtue in it, my heart could not accept."
-Gandhi

"Jesus dies to save men-a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been damned for the race, that would have been [an} act of a size proper to a god, and would have saved the whole race."
-Mark Twain

"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine."
-Friederich Nietzsche

"To remember Jesus is to remember first of all his Cross."
-John Knox

"There is no death of sin with the death of Christ."
-John Owen

"In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified. We must never forget that all there were crucified for the same reason - the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness."
-Martin Luther King Jr.