Easter Season Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Wisdom, Easter

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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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• We live and die; Christ died and lived!

  John Stott

  Easter, Life Changing, Sunday

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

  Martin Luther

  Friday, Spiritual, Jesus

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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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• 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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• 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.

  T. D. Jakes

  Christian, Easter, Sunday

  "Lessons On Forgiveness From T.D. Jakes". "Tell me more" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 5, 2012.

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

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Easter, Soul, Hours

  Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”

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

  Alice Freeman Palmer

  Easter, Life And Love, Peace And Love

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

  Bertran de Born

  Sweet, Easter, Flower

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• There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

  Emily Bronte

  Easter, Art, Atoms

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.212, The Floating Press

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• I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.

  Caroline Rhea

  Easter, Weight Watchers, Chocolate Eggs

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

  Garrison Keillor

  Easter, Suffering, Ham

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• 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

  God, Religious, Easter

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.193, Univ of California Press

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

  Robert H. Goddard

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Comedy is the only hope for humanity.

  Roseanne Barr

  Easter, Humanity, Comedy

  "Q&A: Roseanne Barr, on marijuana, the CIA, and how she is, in fact, the president". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.

  Josh McDowell

  Easter, Events, Alive

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• 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."

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Wise, Easter, Heart

  Richard Le Gallienne (1913). “The lonely dancer: and other poems”

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• There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Easter, Would Be, Ifs

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• Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Funny Easter, Resurrection

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