Quotes of Easter - somelinesforyou

“ 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 Procter

“ 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. ”

- Phillips Brooks

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

- Pope John Paul II

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

- Charles Wesley

“ Spring bursts to-day, For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play. ”

- Christina G. Rossetti

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Katharine Lee Bates

“ Easter so longed for is gone in a day. ”

- James Howell

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

- Clarence W. Hall

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

- Douglas Horton

“ 'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ 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. ”

- Bishop Robert South

“ In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, You'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade. ”

- Irving Berlin

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

- Robert Flatt

“ In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offense was slain; But the Lord is risen today, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah! ”

- Martin Luther

“ O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost when utterance clear To all men shall be given, When all shall say My Brother here, And hear My Son in heaven! ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ 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

“ Angels, roll the rock away; Death, yield up thy mighty prey: See, He rises from the tomb, Glowing with immortal bloom. ”

- Unknown

“ Angels, roll the rock away; Death, yield up thy mighty prey: See, He rises from the tomb, Glowing with immortal bloom. ”

- Anonymous

“ Ye sleeping buds, break Open your green cerements, and wake To fragrant blossoming for His sweet sake. ”

- Unknown

“ That Jesus of Nazareth died upon a cross is mere matter of history; that He who did so die was the Christ the Son of God is entirely a matter of revelation. ”

- Unknown

“ The way of the cross is the way of suffering. Christians are called to die, not kill, in order to show the world how they are loved by Christ. ”

- Unknown

“ You can't have a better tomorrow if you're always thinking about yesterday all the time. ”

- Charles Kettering

“ I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. ”

- Unknown

“ 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. ”

- Unknown

“ We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it. ”

- Unknown

“ It was inevitable that Jesus Christ should be crucified. It was also inevitable that He should rise again. ”

- Unknown

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

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ 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
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