Easter Quotes
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The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise. (Quote by - Carl Knudsen)
Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day; Who did once upon the cross Suffer to redeem our loss. Hallelujah! (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed. (Quote by - Emily Bronte)
But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him. (Quote by - Bible)
Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has burst His bands asunder; He has borne our sins away; Joyful tidings, Yes, the Lord has risen to-day. (Quote by - Thomas Kelly)
We live and die: Christ died and lived! (Quote by - John Stott)
Awake, thou wintry earth--Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness! Christ is risen. (Quote by - Thomas Blackburn)
Jesus cannot forget us; we have been graven on the palms of his hands. (Quote by - Lois Picillo)
Spring bursts to-day, For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play. (Quote by - Christina G. Rossetti)
The fasts are done; the Aves said; The moon has filled her horn And in the solemn night I watch Before the Easter morn. So pure, so still the starry heaven, So hushed the brooding air, I could hear the sweep of an angel's wings If one should earthward fare. (Quote by - Edna Dean Procter)
Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned. (Quote by - Henry Drummond)
The stone was rolled away from the door, not to permit Christ to come out, but to enable the disciples to go in." (Quote by - Peter Marshall)
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
Celestial spirit that doth roll The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: I will arise. (Quote by - Richard Le Gallienne)
Could life so end, half told; its school so fail? Soul, soul, there is a sequel to thy tale! (Quote by - Robert Mowry Bell)
The cross of Christ shows us that God's love is of deepest descent...universal distribution and of eternal duration. (Quote by - Dr. Fred Barlow)
And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present. (Quote by - John Guare)
O the Easter bells are gladly ringing, Let the whole world join the happy lay, Let the hills and vales break forth in singing, Christ, the Lord of Life, is ris'n today. (Quote by - Lizzie Akers)
Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness. (Quote by - Floyd W. Tomkins)
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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." (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all these, a season that stands for as much to the race as Easter does may well be remembered each year with songs and flowers and with every mark of gratitude and of loftiest jubilation. (Quote by - George Horace Lorimer)
It was inevitable that Jesus Christ should be crucified. It was also inevitable that He should rise again. (Quote by - H. R. L. Sheppard)
Once more to new creation Awake, and death gainsay, For death is swallowed up of life, And Christ is risen today! (Quote by - George Newell Lovejoy)
Let the whole world join the happy lay, Let the hills and vales break forth in singing, Christ, the Lord of Life, is ris'n today. (Quote by - Lizzie Akers)
I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. (Quote by - John)
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn. (Quote by - Hugh Mackay)
The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice. (Quote by - Henry Knox Sherrill)
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. (Quote by - Wallace Stevens)
He who wants Lent to seem short should contract a debt to be repaid at Easter (Quote by - Italian Proverb)
Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character. (Quote by - Todd Rundgren)
We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter. (Quote by - Chita Rivera)
Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. (Quote by - Marvin Olasky)
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amid the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Hail, Day of days! in peals of praise Throughout all ages owned, When Christ, our God, hell's empire trod, And high o'er heaven was throned. (Quote by - Fortunatus)
Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. (Quote by - Clarence W. Hall)
Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away? (Quote by - Rev. Frederick William Faber)
To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. (Quote by - Bernhard Langer)
Those have a short Lent, owe money to be paid at Easter. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost when utterance clear To all men shall be given, When all shall say My Brother here, And hear My Son in heaven! (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
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. (Quote by - Charles Wesley)
This is the promise that He hath promised us, even eternal life. (Quote by - John)
A late Easter, a long cold spring. (Quote by - French Proverb)
Easter so longed for is gone in a day. (Quote by - James Howell)
In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah! (Quote by - Martin Luther)
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (Quote by - John)
Ye sleeping buds, break Open your green cerements, and wake To fragrant blossoming for His sweet sake. (Quote by - Margaret French Patton)
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born. (Quote by - Alice Freeman Palmer)
Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter, That maketh the leaf and the flower come out. (Quote by - Bertran de Born)
Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that. (Quote by - William Weld)
Now let the heavens be joyful, Let earth her song begin: Let the round world keep triumph, 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. (Quote by - John of Damascus)
Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.' (Quote by - John)
Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays. (Quote by - John Keble)
Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right... (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. (Quote by - Douglas Horton)
Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals. (Quote by - Charles M. Crowe)
What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary. (Quote by - Lea DeLaria)
Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub. (Quote by - Richard R. Niebuhr)
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
No man can follow Christ and go astray. (Quote by - William H.P. Faunce)
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! On the third morning He arose, Bright with victory o'er his foes. Sing we lauding, And applauding, Hallelujah! (Quote by - John Mason Neale)
My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper. (Quote by - Amy Sedaris)
Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generation or even to prove life eternal. It is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, a day to banish doubts and seek the slopes where the sun is rising, to revel in the faith which transports us out of ourselves and the dead past into the vast and inviting unknown. (Quote by - Author unknown)
Angels, roll the rock away; Death, yield up thy mighty prey: See, He rises from the tomb, Glowing with immortal bloom. (Quote by - Thomas Scott)
If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise! (Quote by - Clarence W. Hall)
I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves. (Quote by - Leon Uris)
The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It tells us that the spiritual is higher than the material; that in this universe spirit counts for more than matter. (Quote by - H.P. Liddon)
Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing. (Quote by - Albert Laighton)
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter. (Quote by - Josh McDowell)
It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls. (Quote by - Katherine Lee Bates)
See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances. (Quote by - Robert Flatt)
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress. (Quote by - Bishop Robert South)
Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless. (Quote by - Charles M. Crowe)
I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! (Quote by - Lucy Van Pelt)
Christianity begins where religion ends...with the resurrection. (Quote by - Herbert Booth Smith)
'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake. (Quote by - Basil C. Hume)
Christ is our Passover! And we will keep the feast With the new leaven, The bread of heaven: All welcome, even the least! (Quote by - Dr. A.R. Thompson)
But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust. (Quote by - Walter Raleigh)
And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here. (Quote by - St. Augustine)
He is risen; he is not here. (Quote by - Bible)
There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE. (Quote by - Linda Grayson)
I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing, "At morn the cherry-blooms will be white, And the Easter bells be ringing!" (Quote by - Edna Dean Procter)
Green Christmas, white Easter (Quote by - German Proverb)
Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behavior by making you happy. Therefore, it counteracts depression, in turn reducing the stress of depression. Your stress-free life helps you maintain a youthful disposition, both physically and mentally. So, eat lots of chocolate! (Quote by - Elaine Sherman)
