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
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
- Pope John Paul II
Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Snow on Christmas means Easter will be green.
- Unknown
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is a certainty. If any fact, not merely of Christianity, but of history, stands on an impregnable foundation, this does.
- E.P. Goodwin
Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!
- Susan Coolidge
The stone was rolled away from the door, not to permit Christ to come out, but to enable the disciples to go in.
- Peter Marshall
The cross of Christ shows us that God's love is of deepest descent...universal distribution and of eternal duration.
- Dr. Fred Barlow
Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.
- Albert Laighton
Christianity begins where religion ends...with the resurrection.
- Herbert Booth Smith
Jesus cannot forget us; we have been graven on the palms of his hands.
- Lois Picillo
This is the promise that He hath promised us, even eternal life.
- Bible
It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.
- Katherine Lee Bates
The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.
- Robert Flatt
Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.
- Floyd W. Tomkins
Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.
- Saint John of Damascus
On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.
- Douglas Horton
If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise!
- Clarence W. Hall
I am the resurrection and the life
- Bible
He is not here: for he is risen.
- Bible
Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.
- Charles M. Crowe
Easter so longed for is gone in a day.
- James Howell
Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.
- Charles M. Crowe
Awake thou wintry earth. Fling off thy sadness. Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth your ancient gladness, Christ is risen!
- Thomas Blackburn
