To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. — Bernhard Langer
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. — S. D Gordon
Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
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. — Basil Hume
Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good. — Ravi Zacharias
Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter. That maketh the leaf and the flower come out. — Bertran de Born
For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born. — Alice Freeman Palmer
'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. — Pope John Paul II
To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred. — Antonin Scalia
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. — Mark Twain
The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive, it is so much more. The message of Easter is that Jesus has risen! — Colin S. Smith
A happy day is known from the way of the sunrise. — Turkish Proverbs
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. — Mark Twain
Short Easter Day Quotes
Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart! — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present. — N. T. Wright
Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. — Janine di Giovanni
The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven. — Rick Warren
Sherrill On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. — Douglas Horton
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." — Phillips Brooks
Easter Day Christian Quotes
So I'll cherish the old rugged cross,
Till my trophies at last I lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown. — George Bennard
On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites. — Barack Obama
Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project. — N. T. Wright
I have an Easter challenge for Christians. My challenge is simply this: tell me what happened on Easter. I am not asking for proof. My straightforward request is merely that Christians tell me exactly what happened on the day that their most important doctrine was born. — Dan Barker
Easter Sunday Quotes
Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about. — N. T. Wright
We live and die; Christ died and lived! — John Stott
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. — Pinchas Lapide
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. — John Guare
To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust. — Pope Benedict XVI
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday. — Fulton J. Sheen
Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Easter Quotes
How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God. — Lottie Moon
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. — Soren Kierkegaard
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us. — John Stott
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. — Marvin Olasky
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. — Todd Rundgren
Christ died. He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better-His PEACE! — Matthew Henry
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. — William Weld
In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade. — Irving Berlin
A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me. — Andrew Murray
But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust. — Walter Raleigh
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; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day. — Phillips Brooks
Comedy is the only hope for humanity. — Roseanne Barr
Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor. — Charles Spurgeon
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. — Emily Bronte
And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here. — Saint Augustine
Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non-compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there. — Michael Leunig
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. — Wallace Stevens
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Easter Time Quotes
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. — Fred Allen
There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me! — Madeleine L'Engle
The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation. — Charles Spurgeon
Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true. — Gerhard E Frost
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. — Robert South
I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time. — Vera Brittain
You can't go east and west at the same time. — Jean Charest
New Rule: Someone must x-ray my stomach to see if the Peeps I ate on Easter are still in there, intact and completely undigested. And I'm not talking about this past Easter. I'm talking about the last time I celebrated Easter, in 1962. — Bill Maher
Easter time reminds us that we have every right to believe that this hope is based on time-tested truths and a solid foundation. — Sarah Palin
Happy Easter Quotes
I’m not great on the florals. I think you’ve got to wear what you’re happy in and that is fun but isn’t mutton dressed up as lamb. — Mary Berry
Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life. — Ravi Zacharias
In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of Easter. God takes upon himself the pain of negation and the God forsakenness of judgement to reconcile himself with his enemies and to give the godless fellowship with himself. — Jürgen Moltmann
Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end. — John of Damascus
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. — John of Damascus
Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter. — Marianne Williamson
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. — Henry Parry Liddon
Happy Easter everyone! Jesus dies, comes back from the dead - and we get chocolate eggs. It's like turn-down service from God. — Denis Leary
Easter Resurrection Quotes
The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus' resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb. — William Lane Craig
Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. — Watchman Nee
God's plan makes you sing about resurrection when your hanging on a cross. — Rod Parsley
Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection. — John Calvin
Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross. — Colin S. Smith
The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it. — N. T. Wright
There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter. The babe Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby without the redeeming Christ of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact of the Resurrection. — Sayings
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. — Charles Wesley
Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer." “If you don’t believe in Easter,” Owen Meany said. “Don’t kid yourself—Don’t call yourself a Christian. — John Irving
Jesus Christ's claim of divinity is the most serious claim anyone ever made. Everything about Christianity hinges on His carnation, crucifixion, and resurrection. That's what Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter are all about. — Luis Palau
Christian Easter Quotes
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand. — S. D Gordon
All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning. — Oswald Chambers
Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!' — Charles R. Swindoll
You'll wake up on Easter morning, And you'll know that he was there, When you find those choc'late bunnies, That he's hiding ev'rywhere. — Gene Autry
The best proof that Christ has risen is that he is still alive. And for the immense majority of our contemporaries, the only way of seeing him alive is for us Christians to love one another. — Louis Evely
On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. — William Henry Drummond
...centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been until now. — David Friedrich Strauss
Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said! — Keith Green
A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings. — Matshona Dhliwayo
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! — Martin Luther
There's nothing better than a good, blind referee. — Bobby Heenan
Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men's sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ. — Watchman Nee
The two great moments in human history are the day that Christ was born and the day He was raised from the dead. These are represented by Christmas and Easter - the two biggest holidays for the church. People who don't even go to church do go on these days. — Louie Giglio
'Tis spring; come out to ramble
The hilly brakes around,
For under thorn and bramble
About the hollow ground
The primroses are found.
And there's the windflower chilly
With all the winds at play,
And there's the Lenten lily
That has not long to stay
And dies on Easter day. — A. E. Housman
Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham) — C. S. Lewis
Blessed are thoseto whom Easter is not a hunt...
but a find;
not a greeting...
but a proclamation;
not an outward fashion...
but inward grace;
not a day...
but an eternity. — Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira
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. — Thomas Raymond Kelly
A guy comes down to earth, takes your sins, dies, and comes back three days later. You believe in him and go to heaven forever. How do you get from that to Hide-The-Eggs? Did Jesus have a problem with eggs? Did he go, "When I come back, if I see any eggs, the whole salvation thing is off." — Jon Stewart
Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day. — James Howell
The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been. — Meriwether Lewis
Thou art the Sun of other days.
They shine by giving back the rays. — John Keble
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? — Frederick William Faber
The years came and went, the children came and left. The worst of getting old is not tiredness and aches and pains, but that time rushes on so quickly, that in the end it doesn't seem to exist. It's Christmas and then it's Easter. It's a clear winter's day and then a hot summer's day. In between it's a vacuum. — Marianne Fredriksson
The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact. — Paul Althaus
Christ will rise on Easter day! — Phillips Brooks
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." — Richard Le Gallienne
No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as on that very spot where misery reigned, where woe triumphed, where agony reached its climax. — Charles Spurgeon
But oh, she dances in such a way!
No sun upon an Easter-day
Is half so fine a sight. — John Suckling
The primary metaphor for the Easter season is the church as the resurrected people living a resurrected spirituality. Because of Easter we are in union with Christ and are called to live in our baptismal identity in his resurrection. This essential theme of Easter cannot be communicated in a day. It takes a season. — Robert E. Webber
At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension. — John Shelby Spong
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. — George Horace Lorimer
It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day... — Benazir Bhutto
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? — Hugh Mackay
You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one. — Pam Brown
My favorite Catholic holiday is Easter. For those of you that don't know, Easter is the day we celebrate Jesus rising from the grave and coming back to Earth as a rabbit that hides colored eggs. — Adam Ferrara
The longest Day hath an Eueninge. — George Herbert
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