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There are…ordinances and administration that must be administered beyond this world… I will mention one. We have not, neither can we receive here, the ordinance and the keys of the resurrection. They will be given to those who have passed off this stage of action and have received their bodies again… They will be ordained by those who hold the keys of the resurrection, to go forth and resurrect the Saints, just as we receive the ordinance of baptism, then the keys of authority to baptize others for the remission of their sins.

Brigham Young

In all the history of the world there have been many great and wise souls, many of whom claimed special knowledge of God. But when the Savior rose from the tomb, He did something no one had ever done. He did something no one else could do. He broke the bonds of death, not only for Himself but for all who have ever lived–the just and the unjust.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Lord has not seen fit to tell us definitely just how Adam came, for we are not ready to receive that truth. He did not come here a resurrected being to die again, for we are taught most clearly that those who pass through the resurrection receive immortality and can die no more.

Joseph Fielding Smith

All the world, believers and non-believers, are indebted to the Redeemer for their certain resurrection, because the resurrection will be as wide as the fall, which brought death to every man.

Marion G. Romney

Regardless of what we believe or how we live, we shall be resurrected, for through the atonement of Christ redemption from the grave is granted to every soul unconditionally.

Marion G. Romney

The Lord who created us in the first place surely has power to do it again. The same necessary elements now in our bodies will still be available–at His command. The same unique genetic code now embedded in each of our living cells will still be available to format new ones then. The miracle of the Resurrection, wondrous as it will be, is marvelously matched by the miracle of our creation in the first place.

Russell M. Nelson

Surely the Resurrection is the center of every Christian’s faith; it is the greatest of all of the miracles performed by the Savior of the world. Without it, we are indeed left hopeless.

Howard W. Hunter

Of all the events of human history, none is so significant as the resurrection of the Son of God…. Of all the victories in human history, none is so great, none so universal in its effect, none so everlasting in its consequences as the victory of the crucified Lord who came forth in the Resurrection that first Easter morning.

Gordon B. Hinckley

In solemnity, and with understanding of the gravity of that which we say, we add our witness to all the world of the reality of the Resurrection, that this same Jesus who rose from the grave ascended into heaven. We declare that in this dispensation of time He returned to restore to earth the pristine gospel which He had taught while walking among men, that with that restoration has come further certain witness of His reality, and has come also the holy priesthood, given to men, which is exercised in His name. This is our testimony, which we bear in the name of Jesus Christ, and we invite all men to hear and accept it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The resurrection of Jesus is one of the greatest messages of all Christianity. It is a divine gift of the Atonement for all mankind.

James E. Faust

Spring is a time for the rebirth of living things from their wintry cover. It typifies and reminds us of the literalness of the resurrection of all things. Significant to me is the fact that our Lord emerged from the tomb in the springtime.

Paul H. Dunn

Resurrection is the reuniting of the body and the spirit. As Jesus was resurrected, eventually every person who was ever born into this world will be resurrected, whether he wants to be or not. When a person is resurrected, he receives immortality, which is to live forever in the resurrected state. Likewise, every person who was ever born into this world will receive immortality regardless of his or her behavior in this life. Thus, resurrection and immnortality are synonymous. They are not a reward–they are a gift-­for we have rendered no service nor attained any accomplishment to warrant these as a reward. The gift is from the Savior; it comes through His atoning sacrifice.

Royden G. Derrick

All mankind will be resurrected as a result of that universal atonement, and those bodies reunited with the spirit can never die nor see corruption. The spirit will never again be divided from the body.

Theodore M. Burton

We testify of and worship not only one who lived and died two thousand years ago… We testify of one who was also resurrected from the dead and is now living—one who is comprehensible, one who has a material, though immortal body as he himself declared when he said to astonished followers, “Handle me and see.”

Hugh B. Brown

Throughout the Church, the sublime message “He is risen! He is risen!” (Hymns, 1985, no. 199) is sung with ringing conviction born of deep and abiding faith. Certainly no doctrine is more central to the gospel of Jesus Christ, for it was both taught and testified to by the Lord himself.

Yet, surprisingly, the Lord’s physical resurrection is strange doctrine to much of the Christian world. Even the Lord’s chosen disciples found it hard to accept this fundamental truth. Consequently, their turn from disbelief to full embrace of the doctrine strengthens the witness of the Resurrection contained in the four Gospels. Against forceful cultural influences that fostered their initial incredulity, these disciples gained unwavering conviction that remains a vital basis of evidence in the Savior’s literal resurrection.

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On this beautiful and sacred Easter weekend, surely no doctrine will be the subject of more sermons nor the object of more praise than that of the atoning sacrifice and the literal resurrection of the Lord, Jesus Christ. And so it should be at Easter and at every other season of the year, for no doctrine in the Christian canon is more important to all mankind than the doctrine of the resurrection of the Son of God. Through him came the resurrection of all men, women, and children who have ever been—or ever will be—born into the world.

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“I am satisfied, always have been, in regard to the resurrection. I rejoice in it. The way was opened unto us by the blood of the Son of God.”

Wilford Woodruff