Short Easter Quotes

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

  S. D Gordon

  Easter, Rare Beauty, Chocolate Eggs

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

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Faith, God

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• Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.

  John of Damascus

  Easter, Joy, Christ

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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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• Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Easter, Three, Earth

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Easter, Men, Eternity

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• Thou art the Sun of other days.
  They shine by giving back the rays.

  John Keble

  Easter, Art, Giving

  John Keble (1829). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble].”, p.130

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

  Bernhard Langer

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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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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• 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.

  Charles Wesley

  Easter, Angel, Son

  Charles Wesley, Frederic M. BIRD (1867). “Charles Wesley seen in his finer and less familiar poems. [A collection of his poems edited by F. M. Bird.]”, p.64

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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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• 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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• The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Wrath, Light, Grace

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• And all that is therein; Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend, For Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.

  John of Damascus

  Easter, Joy, Christ

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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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