Easter Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Joy, Christ, Invisible

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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, Spring

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

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• You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jesus, Fall

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.289, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It tells us that the spiritual is higher than the material; that in this universe spirit counts for more than matter.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

  Henry Parry Liddon (1885). “Easter in St. Paul's: Sermons Bearing Chiefly on the Resurrection of Our Lord”

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, Easter Season, 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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• The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus' resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

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• Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross.

  Colin S. Smith

  Expression, Awful, Horror

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• They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed.

  Bob Uecker

  God, Kids, Eggs

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• Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Dream, Fidgeting

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.88, Library of America

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• He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

  C. S. Lewis

  Food, Heart, Eggs

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.21, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The resurrection is the keystone of the arch on which our faith is supported. If Christ has not risen, we must impeach all those witnesses for lying. If Christ has not risen, we have no proof that the crucifixion of Jesus differed from that of the two thieves who suffered with him. If Christ has not risen, it is impossible to believe his atoning death was accepted.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Lying, Believe

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

  Alice Freeman Palmer

  Life And Love, Peace And Love, Remember

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• People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Past, People

  "'The Smiling Preacher' Builds on Large Following" by Lois Romano, www.washingtonpost.com. January 30, 2005.

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• In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of Easter. God takes upon himself the pain of negation and the God forsakenness of judgement to reconcile himself with his enemies and to give the godless fellowship with himself.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Pain, Men, Giving

  Jürgen Moltmann, Robert E. Neale, Sam Keen, David LeRoy Miller (1972). “Theology of play”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

  Reba McEntire

  Second Chance, Important, Chance

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal. Peeping chicks at Easter time, spring generally, a clear sunrise after an overcast week--a miracle, people say, as if they've been educated from greeting cards.

  Leif Enger

  Spring, Long, People

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press

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

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Soul, Hours, Chains

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

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• Lent is like a long 'retreat' during which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God, in order to defeat the temptations of the Evil One. It is a period of spiritual 'combat' which we must experience alongside Jesus, not with pride and presumption, but using the arms of faith: prayer, listening to the word of God and penance. In this way we will be able to celebrate Easter in truth, ready to renew the promises of our Baptism.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Spiritual, Jesus, Prayer

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• Christ will rise on Easter day!

  Phillips Brooks

  Christ, Easter Day

  Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”

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• Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

  Todd Rundgren

  Lying, Character, America

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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, Heart, Soul

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

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

  John Keble

  Art, Giving, Shining

  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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• A guy comes down to earth, takes your sins, dies, and comes back three days later. You believe in him and go to heaven forever. How do you get from that to Hide-The-Eggs? Did Jesus have a problem with eggs? Did he go, "When I come back, if I see any eggs, the whole salvation thing is off."

  Jon Stewart

  Jesus, Believe, Eggs

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• I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.

  Fred Allen

  Kids, Home, Past

  Fred Allen (1956). “Much Ado About Me”

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Eternity, Feels

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