Easter Quotations - Quotations

"The heavy, ponderous stone that sealed Jesus in the confines of that rock-walled tomb was but a pebble compared to the Rock of Ages inside."
-- Anonymous
"May Easter Day To Thy heart say, "Christ died and rose for thee." May Easter Night On thy heart write, "O Christ, I live to thee."
-- Anonymous
"Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible, it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith."
-- W. H. Auden
"Jesus said unto her I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?"
-- Bible John 11:25-26
"The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold."
-- George Dana Boardman
"The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever."
-- Phillips Brooks
"Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer;Death is strong, but Life is stronger;Stronger that the dark, the light;Stronger than the wrong, the right;Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day."
-- Phillips Brooks
"Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!"
-- Susan Coolidge
"Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless."
-- Charles M. Crowe
"Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals."
-- Charles M. Crowe
"The risen Christ, when he shows himself to his friends, takes on the countenance of all races and earth can hear him in his own tongue."
-- Henri De Lubac
"The soul's emphasis is always right."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No, we can never think that Jesus died in despair or "of a broken heart," as some have said. He was dying in victory, not defeat. He foresaw, if anyone ever did, that future which is more real than the present."
-- Frederick C. Grant
"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!"
-- Clarence W. Hall
"Rise heart: thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise with Him mayst rise: That, as His death calcined the to dust, His life may make thee gold, and much more, just."
-- George Herbert
"On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer."
-- Douglas Horton
"Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide."
-- A. E. Housman
"Easter so longed for is gone in a day."
-- James Howell
"We are punished by our sins, not for them."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"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 Kelley
"Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays."
-- Oren Kierkegaard
"The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise."
-- Carl Knudsen
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
-- Lao-tzu
"Jesus Christ is risen today, Our triumphant holy day; Who did once upon the cross Suffer to redeem our loss. Hallelujah!"
-- Latin Hymn
"Easter is not a passport to another world; it is a quality of perception for this one."
-- W. P. Lemon
"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."
-- Lewiston
"Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born!"
-- James Russell Lowell
"Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."
-- Martin Luther
"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? This is so true that even Satan cannot deny it. Christ's resurrection and victory over sin, death and hell is greater than all heaven and earth. You can never imagine his resurrection and victory so great but that in actuality it is far, far greater."
-- Martin Luther
"What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? Which is the more difficult to be born or to rise again? It is more difficult to come into being than to return to it?"
-- Blaise Pascal
"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. . . . We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."
-- Pope John Paul II
"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!"
--Edna Dean Procter, Easter Bells
"Spring bursts to-day, For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play."
-- Christina Georgina Rossetti, Easter Carol
"It was inevitable that Jesus Christ should be crucified; it was also inevitable that he should rise again."
-- H. R. L. Sheppard
"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
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."
-- Betty Smith
"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."
-- Bishop Robert South, Sermons
"When Jesus died upon the cross, He took our sin and shame; He offers us His righteousness, A gift for us to claim."
-- Sper
"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."
-- St. Augustine
"Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet./ And all the things are made young with young desires."
-- Francis Thompson
"If Easter means anything to modern man it means that eternal truth is eternal. You may nail it to the tree, wrap it up in grave clothes, and seal it in a tomb; but truth crushed to earth, shall rise again. Truth does not perish; it cannot be destroyed. It may be distorted; it has been silenced temporarily; it has been compelled to carry its cross to Calvary's brow or to drink the cup of poisoned hemlock in a Grecian jail, but with an inevitable certainty after every Black Friday dawns truth's Easter Morn."
-- Donald Harvey Tippet
"Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness."
-- Floyd W. Tomkins
"Jesus took my place on the cross to give me a place in heaven."
-- Unknown
"The cross is "I" crossed out."
-- Unknown
"Snow on Christmas means Easter will be green."
--Unknown
"EASTER MATH
1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given"
-- Unknown
"Had Christ not risen we could not believe Him to be what He declared Himself when He made Himself equal with God." But He has risen in the confirmation of all His claims. By it alone, but by it thoroughly, is He manifested as the very Son of God, who has come into the world to reconcile the world to Himself. It is the fundamental fact in the Christian's unwavering confidence in all the words of this life."
-- Benjamin B. Warfield
"Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart."
-- William Butler Yeats

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