175 Easter Quotes to Help You Celebrate Renewal and Hope
Easter, whether you view it from a religious or non-religious perspective, holds a special charm. Have you ever thought about the power that lies in Easter quotes? They are not just simple words, but nuggets of wisdom that can inspire and motivate. Reading Easter quotes can be a wonderful way to embrace the true spirit of Easter. Be it a cute Easter quote to lighten your mood, a profound LDS Easter quote to deepen your faith, or a thought-provoking Catholic Easter quote to enhance your spirituality. Each quote holds a unique message, ready to inspire.
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Famous Easter Quotes
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. — S. D Gordon
To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. — Bernhard Langer
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
Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter. That maketh the leaf and the flower come out. — Bertran de Born
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
'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born. — Alice Freeman Palmer
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
It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good. — Ravi Zacharias
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. — Pope John Paul II
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
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
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
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
Short Easter Quotes
- Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. — Soren Kierkegaard
- A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me. — Andrew Murray
- There's no such thing as too much power! — Wolfgang Gullich
- I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. — Harry Mathews
- Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. — Watchman Nee
- God helps those who rise early. — Mexican Proverbs
- Do not put all your eggs in one basket. — Warren Buffett
- Don't put all your eggs in one basket. — Miguel de Cervantes
- There's nothing better than a good, blind referee. — Bobby Heenan
- But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust. — Walter Raleigh
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Christian Easter Quotes
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
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
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
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
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
Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end. — John of Damascus
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
Easter Resurrection 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
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
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
Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present. — N. T. Wright
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
We live and die; Christ died and lived! — John Stott
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
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. — Pinchas Lapide
Jesus Christ 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
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
your faith and hope are in god. — Billy Graham
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
Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. — Janine di Giovanni
The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection. — Billy Graham
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
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
Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project. — N. T. Wright
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 Day Quotes
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
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
Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart! — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
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
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
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
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
Easter Sunday Quotes
Have a fruitful week you all, In Jesus name. — Folorunsho Alakija
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
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
And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life? — Frederick Buechner
I went to church every Sunday...I understood Christmas and what Easter was about. I understood the persecution of Christ, the crucifixion of Christ, the Resurrection of Christ. I understood all that but I have to say that beyond that...for me, my knowledge after that was quite vague. — Juan Pablo Di Pace
Drinking goes with everything, there's always an excuse to drink. We sell beer and liquor 24/7/365 everywhere, you can buy a 5th of vodka at 3am on Easter Sunday if you want. — Kirk Windstein
The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave. — Bill Murray
Religious Easter Quotes
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
Comedy is the only hope for humanity. — Roseanne Barr
Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all the earth's at play. — Christina Rossetti
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
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
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
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
What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it. — Blaise Pascal
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
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
Easter is never deserved. — Jan Karon
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
Christ is risen from the dead! — Keith Green
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
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
She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it. — Elizabeth Goudge
I am a big gamer. I am kind of in the beginning stages of creating a graphic novel entity that would encompass a game and a movie. I would die happy if I could be a voice in a game that I would actually play and create easter eggs with the team. That's my dream. — Janina Gavankar
Easter Season Quotes
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
Death is strong, but Life is stronger. — Phillips Brooks
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
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
I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs. — Caroline Rhea
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
There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham. — Garrison Keillor
We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We're also talking a lot in the room about planting seeds that can grow over the course of the season, knowing that people might be watching them in bulk. We'd like to bury some Easter eggs and let people find them, later on. — Jenji Kohan
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
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
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
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
I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York. — Roddy McDowall
You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base! — Eileen Wilks
Easter Bunny Quotes
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
I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different. — Dolly Parton
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
There is no such thing as too much snow. — Doug Coombs
The Easter Bunny is a major reason for heroin addiction in America. — John Waters
The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children. — Charles Bukowski
What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary. — Lea DeLaria
As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt. — Shana Alexander
I use to believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Tom Cruise too. — Barbara Bretton
In Australia...they celebrate Easter the same...by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit...left chocolate eggs in the night — Bill Hicks
Kids Easter Quotes
I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it. — Jane Elliott
They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed. — Bob Uecker
Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays. — John Keble
Kids in Washington every year have the big Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. The kids found 300 Easter eggs. They also found about 10,000 missing Hillary emails. — David Letterman
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
I just feel kind of out of place on Easter. I feel kind of useless because everybody else has kids and I don't and I'm just standing there with nothing to do. — Holly Madison
That's the best part. The how. — Jessi Kirby
How is it possible that our parents lied to us?" "Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that..." "Everythings going to be alright. — Brian K. Vaughan
People Writing About Easter
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 S. D Gordon |
26 | 272 |
 Bernhard Langer |
30 | 167 |
 Basil Hume |
9 | 103 |
 Gerard Manley Hopkins |
89 | 517 |
 Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
392 | 5654 |
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
699 | 7457 |
More Easter Quotes
Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world. — John Piper
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
In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade. — Irving Berlin
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help. — Jared Diamond
Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan. — Jose Saramago
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If the resurrection of Jesus from the dead on that Easter Sunday were a public event which had been made known...not only to the 530 Jewish witnesses but to the entire population, all Jews would have become followers of Jesus. — Pinchas Lapide
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. — Henry Knox Sherrill
The disadvantage of having eggs in so many baskets that a lot of eggs do not end up in really attractive baskets, and it is impossible to keep watching all the baskets after the eggs are put in. — Philip Arthur Fisher
We hear the cuckoo’s voice; Then sweet songs of the turtle dove and finch are heard. Soft breezes stir the air. — Antonio Vivaldi
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. — Philip Yancey
Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service. — John Ellerton
There’s no such thing as the goose that lays the golden egg forever. — Jim Simons
I realized what goes on in the egg industry and the dairy industry, so then I was like, ‘That’s it! Going vegan!’ and I just kind of went cold turkey, basically. — Sadie Sink
In Conclusion
Why should you read Easter quotes? Can they really impact your life? Absolutely! These quotes can serve as a beacon of positivity and hope, reminding us of renewal, rebirth, and the joy of life. Happy Easter quotes can brighten up your day, instilling a sense of happiness and gratitude. Easter quotes are more than just words, they are seeds of positivity that, when sown in the mind, can yield a harvest of optimism and resilience. So this Easter, let's embrace these quotes and let their wisdom guide our hearts and minds towards a more enlightened and inspired life.
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