Religious Easter Quotes

• All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Easter, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.91, Discovery House

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We live and die; Christ died and lived!

  John Stott

  Easter, Life Changing, Sunday

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

  Bernhard Langer

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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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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• 'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
  Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Easter, Sunday, Air

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.49

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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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• 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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• 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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• There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

  Bobby Heenan

  Easter, Yummy, Cycling

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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, Easter

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

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• Spring bursts today,
  For love is risen and all the earth's at play.

  Christina Rossetti

  Easter, Spring, Love Is

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• Comedy is the only hope for humanity.

  Roseanne Barr

  Easter, Humanity, Comedy

  "Q&A: Roseanne Barr, on marijuana, the CIA, and how she is, in fact, the president". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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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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• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Funny, Valentines Day

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

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Easter, Three, Earth

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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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• 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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