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Easter Quotations

  1. "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

  2. "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

  3. "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

  4. "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

  5. "The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold."
    -- George Dana Boardman

  6. "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

  7. "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

  8. "Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!"
    -- Susan Coolidge

  9. "Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless."
    -- Charles M. Crowe

  10. "Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals."
    -- Charles M. Crowe

  11. "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

  12. "The soul's emphasis is always right."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

  13. "He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

  14. "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

  15. "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

  16. "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

  17. "On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer."
    -- Douglas Horton

  18. "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

  19. "Easter so longed for is gone in a day."
    -- James Howell

  20. "We are punished by our sins, not for them."
    -- Elbert Hubbard

  21. "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

  22. "Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays."
    -- Oren Kierkegaard

  23. "The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise."
    -- Carl Knudsen

  24. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
    -- Lao-tzu

  25. "Jesus Christ is risen today, Our triumphant holy day; Who did once upon the cross Suffer to redeem our loss. Hallelujah!"
    -- Latin Hymn

  26. "Easter is not a passport to another world; it is a quality of perception for this one."
    -- W. P. Lemon

  27. "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

  28. "Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted."
    -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  29. "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

  30. "Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."
    -- Martin Luther

  31. "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

  32. "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

  33. "Do not abandon yourselves to despair. . . . We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."
    -- Pope John Paul II

  34. "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

  35. "Spring bursts to-day, For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play."
    -- Christina Georgina Rossetti, Easter Carol

  36. "It was inevitable that Jesus Christ should be crucified; it was also inevitable that he should rise again."
    -- H. R. L. Sheppard

  37. "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

  38. "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

  39. "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

  40. "When Jesus died upon the cross, He took our sin and shame; He offers us His righteousness, A gift for us to claim."
    -- Sper

  41. "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

  42. "Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet./ And all the things are made young with young desires."
    -- Francis Thompson

  43. "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

  44. "Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness."
    -- Floyd W. Tomkins

  45. "Jesus took my place on the cross to give me a place in heaven."
    -- Unknown

  46. "The cross is "I" crossed out."
    -- Unknown

  47. "Snow on Christmas means Easter will be green."
    --Unknown

  48. "EASTER MATH
    1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given"
    -- Unknown

  49. "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

  50. "Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart."
    -- William Butler Yeats

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