Quotes about Easter

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Votes: 6

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter. Votes: 4

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.' Votes: 4

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible. Votes: 4

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises. Votes: 4

Alison Rosen IWHI! From the easter egg chapter. Votes: 3

If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north. Votes: 3

He's the only man I know of who can hide his own easter eggs. Votes: 3

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day. Votes: 2

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter. Votes: 2

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. Votes: 2

Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart! Votes: 2

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity. Votes: 2

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures. Votes: 2

Sherrill On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. Votes: 2

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. Votes: 2

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. Votes: 2

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls. Votes: 2

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter. Votes: 2

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. Votes: 2

Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. Votes: 2

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Votes: 2

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper. Votes: 2

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. Votes: 2

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore. Votes: 2

I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life. Votes: 2

For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born. Votes: 2

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. Votes: 2

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. Votes: 2

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love. Votes: 2

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary. Votes: 2

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection. Votes: 2

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. Votes: 2

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. Votes: 2

Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts. Votes: 2

Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter. Votes: 2

What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

People come together with their families to celebrate Easter. What better way to celebrate than to spend a few hours going on the journey of Christ's life. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil. Votes: 2

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. Votes: 2

During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas. Votes: 2

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. Votes: 2

I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter. Votes: 2

Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness. Votes: 2

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. Votes: 2

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection. Votes: 2

Up and down our lives obedient Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant, Till those garden lives shall be Fair with duties done for Thee; And our thankful spirits say, "Christ arose on Easter Day." Votes: 2

Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us. Votes: 2

Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it. Votes: 2

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? Votes: 2

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation. Votes: 2

There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross. Votes: 2

Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth. Votes: 2

Easter is never deserved. Votes: 0

The Jews spend at Easter. Votes: 0

Easter means that Christmas worked. Votes: 0

Christ will rise on Easter day! Votes: 0

Easter's nearly here, now - Sing, world, sing! Votes: 0

The Trial of Poppy Moon is free over Easter. Votes: 0

Blessed are thoseto whom Easter is not a hunt... Votes: 0

The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate. Votes: 0

Dear God, don't let us confine Easter to Easter. Votes: 0

I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism. Votes: 0

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance. Votes: 0

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world. Votes: 0

I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs. Votes: 0

Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee. Votes: 0

The Easter Bunny is a major reason for heroin addiction in America. Votes: 0

Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God's saving, sovereign kingdom... Votes: 0

I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs. Votes: 0

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter. Votes: 0

The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes. Votes: 0

So this chocolate princess. Her knight in shining armor is the Easter Bunny. Votes: 0

I use to believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Tom Cruise too. Votes: 0

You know what I'm doing for Easter? I'm gonna be hanging with my Peeps. Votes: 0

'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. Votes: 0

Resurrection does not come without crucifixion, and you cannot celebrate Easter without living Good Friday. Votes: 0

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday. Votes: 0

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!" Votes: 0

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Votes: 0

Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word. Votes: 0

I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.' Votes: 0

Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter. That maketh the leaf and the flower come out. Votes: 0

Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter. Votes: 0

On Easter day let us promise to resurrect, transcend, and transform our conscience for the happiness of mankind. Votes: 0

They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed. Votes: 0

Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it. Votes: 0

I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket. Votes: 0

Two Santa Clauses on the corner. How can you tell the Polish one? The one with the Easter basket. Votes: 0

The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required. Votes: 0

In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade. Votes: 0

But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. Votes: 0

Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell. Votes: 0

Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present. Votes: 0

The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave. Votes: 0

What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists. Votes: 0

When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes. Votes: 0

A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first." Votes: 0

Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham. Votes: 0

I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different. Votes: 0

We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust. Votes: 0

Hollywood is the only place on earth that has more vampires, more undead, more resurrections than a month of Easter Sundays. Votes: 0

Easter is all about remembering the importance of change, responsibility, and doing the right thing for the good of our children. Votes: 0

In Australia...they celebrate Easter the same...by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit...left chocolate eggs in the night Votes: 0

I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. Votes: 0

Happy Easter everyone! Jesus dies, comes back from the dead - and we get chocolate eggs. It's like turn-down service from God. Votes: 0

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. Votes: 0

I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year. Votes: 0

Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service... Votes: 0

Easter time reminds us that we have every right to believe that this hope is based on time-tested truths and a solid foundation. Votes: 0

Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on society. Votes: 0

A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class. Votes: 0

He that won't be counseled can't be helped. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter. Votes: 0

The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive, it is so much more. The message of Easter is that Jesus has risen! Votes: 0

I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated. Votes: 0

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time. Votes: 0

This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all. Votes: 0

O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the world Thine own. Votes: 0

Ex-convicts prepared the eggs for the White House's Easter Egg Roll. It's nice to see the White House reaching out to former members of Congress. Votes: 0

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy. Votes: 0

People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. Votes: 0

Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter. Votes: 0

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art. Votes: 0

See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices... Votes: 0

We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God. Votes: 0

Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Today was the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Usually when you see something rolling on the White House lawn it's a drunk Secret Service agent. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness. Votes: 0

During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection. Votes: 0

Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg. Votes: 0

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'. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And the One will win the Armor of the Easter Dawn and defeat the enemy with audacity and wisdom. The body of the One is strong and ready to lead. Lammasu will pounce Votes: 0

In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore. Votes: 0

In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore. Votes: 0

On Easter, the Pope asked for peace in the Middle East. There are two groups the Pope has to contend with - Jewish people and Muslims. They couldn't wait to hear his suggestions. Votes: 0

Whenever we encounter a human being in such a way that we feel absolutely certain of the infinity of that person's worth and the eternity of his or her life, that is Easter. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are Easter eggs in every book I've ever written. I think in the first one I called [Scientology] "Diabology," but I was scared, so I didn't tell many people what it really meant. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

On Easter I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian I am supposed to love, and I have to say that sometimes, when I've listened to less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0