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

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Funny Easter, Resurrection

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

  Bernhard Langer

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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• Death is strong, but Life is stronger.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Easter, Strong

  Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”

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• Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.

  S. D Gordon

  Easter, Rare Beauty, Chocolate Eggs

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Easter, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, Funny Easter

  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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• Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.

  N. T. Wright

  Easter, World, Resurrection

  N. T. Wright (2009). “Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church”, p.29, Harper Collins

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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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• 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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• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Faith, God

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

  Billy Graham

  Love, Christian, Easter

  Twitter post from Apr 05, 2015

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• Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

  William Barclay

  Easter, Responsibility, Sacrifice

  William Barclay (1956). “The Gospel of John”

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Easter, Sunday, Air

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.49

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• Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Easter, Life Changing

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• I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.

  Amy Sedaris

  Easter, Rabbits, Bunnies

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