Happy Easter Quotes Easter Quotations

Happy Easter Quotes Easter Quotations

Easter is a Christian festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament.  Easter is the culmination of the Passion of Christ, preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance.

The last week of Lent is called Holy Week, and it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday (also known as Holy Thursday), commemorating the Last Supper and its preceding foot washing,  as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Easter is followed by a fifty-day period called Eastertide, or the Easter Season, ending with Pentecost Sunday.

“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
― Pope John Paul II

“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.”

“Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.”

“If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. Forever Easter.”
― David Housholder, The Blackberry Bush

“Love paid a price so hope could become a reality.”
― Susan Gaddis

“Then she looked at the man on the tree and she smiled wryly. "They just aren't as interesting naked," she said. "It's the unwrapping that's half the fun. Like with gifts, and eggs.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Two thousand years ago Jesus is crucified, three days later he walks out of a cave and they celebrate with chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps and beautifully decorated eggs. I guess these were things Jesus loved as a child.”

“God is not interested in your art but, your heart.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.  ~Robert Flatt


Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there.  ~Clarence W. Hall


It is the hour to rend thy chains,
The blossom time of souls.  ~Katherine Lee Bates

“The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
This Eastertide call into mind the men,
Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should
Have gathered them and will do never again.”
― Edward Thomas

Could life so end, half told; its school so fail?
Soul, soul, there is a sequel to thy tale!
~Robert Mowry Bell


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


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...
~Phillips Brooks, "An Easter Carol"


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

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.  ~Joseph Addison


Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.  ~Albert Laighton


Bunnies are cuddly
The large and the small
But I like chocolate ones
The best of them all.
~Author Unknown

But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust.  ~Walter Raleigh

 
For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born.  ~Alice Freeman Palmer


Thou art the Sun of other days.
They shine by giving back the rays.
~John Keble, The Christian Year: Easter Days


We live and die; Christ died and lived!  ~John Stott

Once more to new creation Awake,
and death gainsay,
For death is swallowed up of life,
And Christ is risen today!  ~George Newell Lovejoy


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


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 heart, and there find Him.  For He departed, and behold, He is here.  ~St Augustine


Ye sleeping buds, break
Open your green cerements, and wake
To fragrant blossoming for His sweet sake.  ~Margaret French Patton

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