Quotes on Easter

Easter Quotes and Sayings

1. "The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold."
   

   -- George Dana Boardman

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. " 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

4. "The great Jesus Christ is risen today, Our triumphant holy day; Who did once upon the cross Suffer to redeem our loss. Hallelujah!"

   -- Latin hymn

5. " Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted."

   -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

6. "Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted, not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals."

   -- Charles M. Crowe

7. "The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances. "

   -- Robert Flatt

   

8. "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 Audry

9. "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

10. " Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!"

    -- Susan Coolridge

11. "Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless."

    -- Charles M. Crowe

12. "Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits."

    -- Isaiah 26:19

    

13. "Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death."

    -- Soren Kierkegaard

14. "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."

    -- Hugh Mackay

15. "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

16. "Believing in the Easter bunny is like saying you believe in an over sized, purple bunny, pooping colorful eggs on your lawn."

    -- Author Unknown

17. "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

18. "So is Easter the festival of eggs or of bunnies bro? I still can’t understand how the eggs and the bunnies are related.."

    -- Tewin Sham

19. "True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

    -- William Penn

20. "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."

    -- H. P. Liddon

    

21. "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

22. "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

23. "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

24. "We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary."

    -- Alexander Maclaren

25. "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."

    -- H. P. Liddon

26. "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 Pasal

27. "Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behavior by making you happy. Therefore, it counteracts depression, in turn reducing the stress of depression. Your stress-free life helps you maintain a youthful disposition, both physically and mentally. So, eat lots of chocolate!"

    -- Elaine Sherman

    

28. "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

29. "Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless."

    -- Charles M. Crowe

30. "Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals."

    -- Charles M. Crowe

31. "Let the resurrection joy lift us fromloneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness".

    --Floyd W. Tomkins

32. "Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there."

    --Clarence W. Hall

    

33. "We live and die: Christ died and lived!"

    --John Stott

34. "To Him I owe my life and breath, And all the joys I have; He makes me triumph over death, And saves me from the grave."

    --Samuel Stennett [A. D. 1787]

35. "Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death."

    --Soren Kierkegaard