Easter Quotes

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.

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us"”a crucified God"”must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. Sunday dinner isn't sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you see it from the viewpoint of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean "” once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help.

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

A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

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.

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.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

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

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.

Easter is never deserved.

We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world.

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.

I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

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.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

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

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

You can't go east and west at the same time.

All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."

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

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