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• The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.

  Charles Stanley

  Father, Air, Clothes

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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, Men

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• On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, New Year, Buddhist

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.204, Canongate Books

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• Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

  Marvin Olasky

  Christian, Moving, Holiday

  Forbes, Volume 180, Issues 8-13, 2007.

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• Easter is never deserved.

  Jan Karon

  Happy Easter

  Jan Karon (2007). “Home to Holly Springs”, p.285, Penguin

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• On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

  William Henry Drummond

  Christian, Jesus, Historical

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• Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With Him mayst rise: That, as His death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just.

  George Herbert

  Heart, Dust, Hands

  George Herbert, William Jerdan (1853). “The Works of the Rev. George Hebert”, p.41

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• The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Way, Language

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

  Amy Sedaris

  Rabbits, Bunnies, Palm Sunday

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• 'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

  Jason Scott Lee

  Islands, Class, Royal

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• And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?

  Frederick Buechner

  Christmas, Jesus, Brother

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

  Chita Rivera

  New York, People, Aids

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• The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.

  Edward Thomas

  Flower, Home, Men

  Edward Thomas (2012). “Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.17, Other Press, LLC

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• I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.

  Leon Uris

  People, Rising, Proud

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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, Prayer, 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

  Men, Dresses, Credit

  Robert South (1727). “Twelve Sermons ...”, p.286

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• Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!'

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Voice, Shadow

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.127, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

  Amy Sedaris

  God, Mom, Chocolate Eggs

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

  Douglas Horton

  Veils, Eternity, Happy Easter

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• But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

  Walter Raleigh

  Dust, Earth, Graves

  Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh (1815). “Poems”, p.75

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• Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.

  Josh McDowell

  Events, Alive, Firsts

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• Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts,
  How sang the angelic choir that day,
  When from his tomb the imprisoned God,
  Like the strong sunrise, broke away?

  Frederick William Faber

  Strong, Heaven, Sunrise

  Frederick William Faber (1875). “Hymns”, p.88

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• To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Sunday, Light, Fitting

  Pope Benedict XVI (1998). “Milestones: Memoirs, 1927-1977”, p.6, Ignatius Press

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• your faith and hope are in god.

  Billy Graham

  Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, Hope And Faith, Newness Of Life

  Billy Graham (2014). “Hope for Each Day Signature Edition: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, p.287, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

  Josh McDowell

  Clothes, Mind, Firsts

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