Funny Easter Quotes

• I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.

  Caroline Rhea

  Easter, Weight Watchers, Chocolate Eggs

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• Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.

  Garrison Keillor

  Easter, Suffering, Ham

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• Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter. That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.

  Bertran de Born

  Sweet, Easter, Flower

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• A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn.

  Hugh Mackay

  Easter, Cousin, Spring

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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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• Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

  Warren Buffett

  Easter, Eggs, Investment Success

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.13, Carolina Academic Press

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• We live and die; Christ died and lived!

  John Stott

  Easter, Life Changing, Sunday

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• Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Easter, Investment Success, Chocolate Eggs

  "Moral essays on proverbs". Book by Samuel Palmer, 1710.

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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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• 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

  Easter, Kids, Home

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

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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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• There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

  Emily Bronte

  Easter, Art, Atoms

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.212, The Floating Press

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• Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.

  Phillips Brooks

  Easter, Strong, Dark

  Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”

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• Death is strong, but Life is stronger.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Easter, Strong

  Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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, Easter, Mean

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

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• Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

  W. H. Auden

  Christmas, Friday, Easter

  "Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry". Book by Anthony Hecht, p. 135, 2005.

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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

  Easter, Thinking, Way

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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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• Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

  T. D. Jakes

  Christian, Easter, Sunday

  "Lessons On Forgiveness From T.D. Jakes". "Tell me more" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 5, 2012.

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• I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.

  Daniel Morgan

  Jesus, Easter, Believe

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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, Easter, Moving

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

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• Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Easter Season, Resurrection

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