«Easter Quotes, Sayings, Verses, Poems»

"Easter," all her birds are singing,

Easter, and the souls of men,

Lying long in strife and shadow,

Take the light of heaven again.

J.J. Britton (1832–1913), "Easter"

I lied on my Weight Watchers list.

I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.

Caroline Rhea

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

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

For I remember it is Easter morn,

And life and love and peace are all new born.

Alice Freeman Palmer

Angels, roll the rock away;

Death, yield up thy mighty prey:

See, He rises from the tomb,

Glowing with immortal bloom.

Thomas Scott, "Easter Angels"

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.

By Soren Kierkegaard

Once more to new creation Awake,

and death gainsay,

For death is swallowed up of life,

And Christ is risen today!

George Newell Lovejoy

Christ the Lord is risen today, Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.

By Charles Wesley

I think of the garden after the rain;

And hope to my heart comes singing,

At morn the cherry-blooms will be white,

And the Easter bells be ringing!

Edna Dean Proctor, "Easter Bells"

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Awake, thou wintry earth -

Fling off thy sadness!

Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth

Your ancient gladness!

Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"

Ye sleeping buds, break

Open your green cerements, and wake

To fragrant blossoming for His sweet sake.

Margaret French Patton

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

Colin Smith

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, Sermons

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Saint Augustine

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

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.

Albert Laighton

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.

St Augustine

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

“Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.”

N.T. Wright

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

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

But from this earth, this grave, this dust,

My God shall raise me up, I trust.

Walter Raleigh

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

If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus’ fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.

A.W. Tozer

Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.

Charles M. Crowe

And as He was resurrected

On that day, so very fair,

Let our thoughts be resurrected

From wrong thinking to God’s care...

Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Easter" (1940s)

Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.

Charles M. Crowe

The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.

Robert Flatt

Easter is never deserved.

Jan Karon

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

James E. Faust

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

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

Joel Osteen

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

Basil Hume

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

Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter

That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.

Bertran de Born

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

Janine di Giovanni

The blossom time of souls

It is the hour to rend thy chains,

The blossom time of souls.

Katherine Lee Bates

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.

Ezra Taft Benson

The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn’t the end. Jesus didn’t escape from death; he conquered it and opened the way to heaven for all who will dare to believe. The truth of this moment, if we let it sweep over us, is stunning. It means Jesus really is who he claimed to be, we are really as lost as he said we are, and he really is the only way for us to intimately and spiritually connect with God again.

Steven James

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 C. Hume

The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive, it is so much more. The message of Easter is that Jesus has risen!

By Colin Smith

All of heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, hell afraid of it, while men are the only ones to ignore its meaning.

Oswald Chambers

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

Martin Luther

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

S.D. Gordon

Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.

Floyd W. Tomkins

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself

Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;

But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,

Unhurt amid the war of elements,

The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Joseph Addison

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

Douglas Horton

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.

Rick Warren

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

John Paul II

What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

Walter Martin

The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.

Carl Knudsen

Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.

Clarence W. Hall