Religious 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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• We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Wisdom, Easter

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Easter, Men, Eternity

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

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Easter, Soul, Hours

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

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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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• Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.

  S. D Gordon

  Easter, Rare Beauty, Chocolate Eggs

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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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• Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

  Martin Luther

  Friday, Spiritual, Jesus

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• Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.

  John of Damascus

  Easter, Joy, Christ

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• The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact.

  Paul Althaus

  Easter, Jerusalem, Facts

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• 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

  Easter, Joy, Christ

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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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• 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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• 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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• What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Easter, Atheist, Return

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.361

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• In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!

  Martin Luther

  Easter, Voice, Singing

  Martin Luther, “In The Bonds Of Death He Lay”

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• We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Easter, Believe, History

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.207

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• There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.

  Charles Stanley

  Jesus, Easter, Storm

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

  Josh McDowell

  Easter, Events, Alive

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