Christian Easter Quotes - Page 2

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Easter, Men, Eternity

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

  Bernhard Langer

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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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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• Christ is risen from the dead!

  Keith Green

  Easter, Resurrection, Christ

  Song: Easter Song

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

  Douglas Horton

  Easter, Veils, Eternity

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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