Easter Quotes, Verses And Sayings

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“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

“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

“‘Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“This is the day that the Lord has made Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
– Holy Bible

“Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.”
– Holy Bible

“For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.”
– Holy Bible

“Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. 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?”
– Holy Bible

“Easter so longed for is gone in a day.”
– James Howell

“Easter is never deserved.”
– Jan Karon

“We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.”
– Joel Osteen

“Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.”
– John Calvin

“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.”
– John Guare

“Thou art the Sun of other days.
They shine by giving back the rays.”
– John Keble

“We live and die; Christ died and lived!”
– John Stott

“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

“Live in the awareness that Christ lives and that He lives in His people.”
– Julien B. Weil

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

“Wishing everyone Easter that brings you hope filled with lots of love, blessings, unlimited luck and most of all happiness that lasts for a life time.”
– Kemmy Nola

“The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus – His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.”
– Kenneth Scott Latourette

“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.”
– Leon Uris

“Now let the heavens be joyful, Let earth her song begin: Let the round world keep triumph, the Easter bells are gladly ringing, Let the whole world join the happy lay, Let the hills and vales break forth in singing, Christ, the Lord of Life, is ris’n today.”
– Lizzie Akers

“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.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

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

“Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.”
– Martin Luther

“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

“Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth – so there’s two stories there.”
– Michael Leunig

“Jesus’ 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.”
– N.T. Wright

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

“All of heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, hell afraid of it, while men are the only ones to ignore its meaning.”
– Oswald Chambers

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