Christian Easter Quotes

• 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; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.

  Phillips Brooks

  Easter, Strong, Dark

  Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”

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• And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

  Saint Augustine

  Easter, Heart, Sight

  "Confessions".

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• Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

  Janine di Giovanni

  Morning, Easter, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ

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• 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.

  Basil Hume

  Faith, Christian, Hope

  Basil Hume (2001). “Cardinal Hume: A Spiritual Companion : Reflections Through the Year”, Paraclete Press (MA)

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• Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.

  Watchman Nee

  Easter, Resurrection, Crosses

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.37, CLC Publications

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Easter, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, Easter Season

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

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• We live and die; Christ died and lived!

  John Stott

  Easter, Life Changing, Sunday

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• 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.

  Charles Kingsley

  Easter, Sleep, Winter

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Andromeda and Other Poems: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.229, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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• Sherrill On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.

  Douglas Horton

  Easter, Veils, Eternity

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• He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Easter, Men, Eternity

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Easter, Christ, Funny Easter

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• Christ is risen from the dead!

  Keith Green

  Easter, Resurrection, Christ

  Song: Easter Song

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• 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.

  Robert South

  Easter, Men, Dresses

  Robert South (1727). “Twelve Sermons ...”, p.286

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• 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

  Friday, Jesus, Easter

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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

  Walter Raleigh

  Easter, Dust, Earth

  Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh (1815). “Poems”, p.75

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

  Bernhard Langer

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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

  Pope John Paul II

  Depression, God, Spiritual

  "Force of Nature". Book by Dana Mentink (p. 215), December 3, 2013.

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

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Easter, Jesus, Crucifixion Of Christ

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

  Andrew Murray

  Jesus, Easter, Life Changing

  Andrew Murray (2013). “Jesus Himself”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Easter, Prayer

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• Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said!

  Keith Green

  Easter, Tombstone, Angel

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• 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

  Spiritual, Easter, Life Changing

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• 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 Autry

  Easter, Morning, Wake Up

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• Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned.

  William Henry Drummond

  Easter, Spring, Character

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