Easter Quotes - Page 8

• Jesus Christ's claim of divinity is the most serious claim anyone ever made. Everything about Christianity hinges on His carnation, crucifixion, and resurrection. That's what Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter are all about.

  Luis Palau

  Christian, Friday, Jesus

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• 'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.

  Annie Besant

  Hero, Moon, Men

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.796, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I cannot say my yes to legends that have been clearly and fancifully created. If I could not move my search beyond angelic messengers, empty tombs, and ghostlike apparitions, I could not say yes to Easter.

  John Shelby Spong

  Moving, Religion, Legends

  John Shelby Spong (1994). “Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity”, Harpercollins

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• How is it possible that our parents lied to us?" "Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that..." "Everythings going to be alright.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Hurt, School, Kids

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• 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.

  John Piper

  Christian, Pain, Christ On The Cross

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• If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Reality

  The Parish Newsletter of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, April 2014.

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• I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Girl, Hate, Spices

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• Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  God, Friday, Spiritual

  Hans Von Balthasar, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Adrienne von Speyr (2010). “To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption”, p.39, Ignatius Press

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• Holy Week is a good occasion to go to confession and to take up the right path again.

  Pope Francis

  Path, Week, Confession

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• If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Past, Redemption

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• 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.

  Franklin Graham

  World, Sin, Forget

  "Gibson's 'Passion' debuts worldwide", www.cnn.com. February 26, 2004.

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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

  Tombstone, Angel, Singing

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• 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."

  Lyman Abbott

  Christian, Charity, Worship

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• People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Christmas, Home, People

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• What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.

  Jared Diamond

  Tree, Lasts, Anthropologists

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• April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

  Christopher Morley

  Spring, Thinking, Light

  Christopher Morley (1931). “John Mistletoe”, Doubleday, Doran

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• I would argue that the truth of Easter does not depend on whether there was an empty tomb, or whether anything happened to the body of Jesus. ... I do not see the Christian tradition as exclusively true, or the Bible as the unique and infallible revelation of God. ... It makes no historical sense to say, 'Jesus was killed for the sins of the world.' ... I am one of those Christians who does not believe in the virgin birth, nor in the star of Bethlehem, nor in the journeys of the wisemen, nor in the shepherds coming to the manger, as facts of history.

  Marcus Borg

  Christian, Jesus, Stars

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• As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.

  Shana Alexander

  Real, Idols, Eggs

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• Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.

  Tom Harpur

  Religious, Spring, Sunday

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• The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.

  George Dana Boardman Pepper

  Heaven, Ladders, Enough

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• Easter means that Christmas worked.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean

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• The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.

  Philip Yancey

  Evil, Religion, May

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.151, Harper Collins

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• If all the evidence is weighed carefully and fairly, it is indeed justifiable, according to the canons of historical research, to conclude that the sepulcher of Joseph of Arimathea, in which Jesus was buried, was actually empty on the morning of the first Easter. And no shred of evidence has yet been discovered in literary sources, epigraphy, or archaeology that would disprove this statement.

  Paul L. Maier

  Jesus, Morning, Historical

  Paul L. Maier (1991). “In the Fullness of Time: A Historian Looks at Christmas, Easter, and the Early Church”, p.203, Kregel Publications

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• Jesus lives, to Him the Throne
  Over all the world is given,
  May we go where He is gone,
  Rest and reign with Him in heaven.
  Alleluia!

  Christian Furchtegott Gellert

  Jesus, Heaven, Thrones

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• We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Lying, Stronger, Thanks

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