Quotes about Bodily
It is not about "life after death" as such. Rather, it's a way of talking about being bodily alive again after a period of being bodily dead. Resurrection is a second-stage postmortem life: "life after 'life after death.
- NT Wright
Conservatives have said that Jesus was bodily raised, while liberals have denied it, but neither group has seen the bodily resurrection as the launching of God's new creation within the present world order. And with that failure many other things have been lost as well.
- NT Wright
Jesus Christ's honor is at stake in our bodily lives.
- Oswald Chambers
“Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.
- Leviticus 15:2
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
- Colossians 2:9
It can't be any other way. If salvation is to affect our lives, it can do so only by affecting our bodies. If we are to participate in the reign of God, it can only be by our actions. And our actions are physical—we live only in the processes of our bodies. To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives. Our life is a bodily life, even though that life is one that can be fulfilled solely in union with God.
- Dallas Willard
Bodily habits are the primary form in which human evil exists in practical life.
- Dallas Willard
So the Church imitates the Lords mother - not in the bodily sense, which it could not do - but in mind it is both mother and virgin. In no way, then, did Christ deprive his mother of her virginity by being.
- St. Augustine
What matters here is that the moment Cleopas and his friend recognized Jesus in the breaking of bread, his bodily presence was no longer required as a condition for their new hope.
- Henri Nouwen
Resurrection means bodily life after 'life after death,' or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of 'death'
- NT Wright
Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very body destines us to death. We must be born and we must die.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Jesus - "the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily" (Colossians 2:9).
- John Piper