Easter Quotes, Verses And Sayings

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Here is a nice collection of Easter quotes, sayings and verses you can use to help celebrate this beautiful day in the Christian calendar.

“O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.”
– 1979 Book of Common Prayer

“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

“The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a Roman cross. They nailed Him on it, and God, in His majesty and mystery, turned it into an altar. The Lamb who was dying in the mystery and wonder of God was turned into the Priest who offered Himself. No one else was a worthy offering.”
– A.W. Tozer

“Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.”
– Albert Laighton

“For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born.”
– Alice Freeman Palmer

“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

“Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
– Bernhard Langer

“Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter
That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.”
– Bertran de Born

“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

“The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.”
– Billy Graham

“Easter is a time to rejoice, be thankful, be assured that all is forgiven so life extends beyond the soil of earth.”
– Byron Pulsifer

“The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation.”
– C.H. Spurgeon

“The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.”
– Carl Knudsen

“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 is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.”
– Charles M. Crowe

“Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.”
– Charles M. Crowe

“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 says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.”
– Clarence W. Hall

“The resurrection of Jesus changes the face of death for all His people. Death is no longer a prison, but a passage into God’s presence. Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.”
– Clarence W. Hall

“Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross.”
– Colin Smith

“The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive, it is so much more. The message of Easter is that Jesus has risen!”
– Colin Smith

“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

“In every grave on earth’s green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot perish. It will germinate when the warm south wind of Christ’s return brings back the spring-tide to this cold sin-cursed earth of ours; and then they that are in their graves, and we who shall lie down in ours, will feel in our mortal bodies the power of His resurrection, and will come forth to life immortal.”
– David Gregg

“If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. Forever Easter.”
– David Housholder

“The cross is a onetime visual representation of God’s grief over sin.”
– Dean L. Harvey

“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

“On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.”
– Douglas Horton

“The fasts are done; the Aves said;
The moon has filled her horn
And in the solemn night I watch
Before the Easter morn.
So pure, so still the starry heaven,
So hushed the brooding air,
I could hear the sweep of an angel’s wings
If one should earthward fare.”
– Edna Dean Proctor

“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

“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

“Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.”
– Floyd W. Tomkins

“Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.”
– Frederick Buechner

“There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody’s voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die?”
– Frederick Buechner

“Once more to new creation Awake,
and death gainsay,
For death is swallowed up of life,
And Christ is risen today!”
– George Newell Lovejoy

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