Easter Quotes

 

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.|Pope John Paul II

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

Love always involves responsibility         and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.|William Barclay

It is the hour to rend thy chains      the blossom time of souls.|Katharine Lee Bates

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.|Joel Osteen

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.|James E. Faust

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

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

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 Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more        then   will He care for us   who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.|Charles Stanley

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us – an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.|E. Stanley Jones

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb         but rather the empty grave clothes – undisturbed in form and position.|Josh McDowell

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed            a mere doctrine        but it is He Himself we have.|Dwight L. Moody

To a Christian           Easter Sunday means everything  when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.|Bernhard Langer

Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many   and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it.|Michael Leunig

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

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.|Amy Sedaris

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.|Gordon B. Hinckley

It is at Easter that Jesus is most human     and like all humans he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God            it is an all-vulnerable God.|Michael Leunig

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus – His incarnation His life          His crucifixion    and His resurrection.|Kenneth Scott Latourette

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you       you can leave your past behind.|Joel Osteen

I have always wanted a bunny and I’ll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.|Amy Sedaris

At one time I smoked          but in 1959 I couldn’t think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped – and I haven’t had a cigarette since.|Ethel Merman

Easter may seem boring to children          and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.|Frederica Mathewes-Green

Easter tells us of something children can’t understand   because it addresses things they don’t yet have to know: the weariness of life         the pain         the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.|Frederica Mathewes-Green

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing  but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great Michael Leunigity where he holds to his truth – so there’s two stories there.|Michael Leunig

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

Even if you’re not Christian just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.|Trey Parker

Here’s the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us.|Denis Leary

To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein          consider and mark   how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind         in the sight of God and of his law.|William Tyndale

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.|Josh McDowell

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that’s it. It’s a task I love.|Olivia De Havilland

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ            not in any ostentatious way           not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation          but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world          that you are trying to live by Christ’s standards in your own daily life.|Keith O’Brien

During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.|Joseph B. Wirthlin

Personally     my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life      I’d like to go to places like Easter Island.|Nicolas Cage

A strangely reflective          even melancholy day. Is that because      unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?|Hugh Mackay

Fortunately    the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you could want     that it’s not that hard to find the right character. Sometimes it’s nothing more than an Easter egg      or a name drop         and sometimes it’s someone like ‘Deathstroke    ‘ who is a huge part of the DC Universe.|Marc Guggenheim

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me           from a sports perspective. He’s a Boston baby and I’m a New York guy.|Kevin James

Well    on Easter of sophomore year of high school       me and my brother found my dad dead on our living room floor.|Caris LeVert

I built my church on Easter services         Christmas Eve services      and Norman Vincent Peale.|Robert H. Schuller

There are going to be birthdays     weddings      BBQs and work dos and you are entitled to have a few drinks     a slice of cake          a pepperoni pizza or an Easter egg every now and then.|Chloe Madeley

Easter egg hunts and parades are nothing new to any household or city          however nobody does it better then the Big Apple.|Hilary Farr

I’m Jewish     so I don’t know much about Easter eggs.|Simon Kinberg

Easter is an arts and crafts moment where your whole family and friends can get involved.|Alex Guarnaschelli

Easter is one of my favorite holidays with the kids. They get to run loose      and we always have our family and loved ones all around us!|Camila Alves

I don’t really care what people tell children – when you believe in Santa Claus          the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy  one more fib won’t hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion   posited in some touchy-feely quarters that all women are   or can be       beautiful.|Julie Burchill

I wasn’t allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn’t have candy or soda or anything   so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times ’cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.|Kaley Cuoco

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world  right now      for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy if we believed in the Easter Bunny we might well believe that.|William Weld

Generally       occasions like Maundy Thursday and Easter can strictly be family affairs for Christian households. But        while I was growing up in my ancestral home in Ponkunnam in Kottayam district            they weren’t so. My late dad was a very cool      affable person who liked to involve our friends and neighbors too in such celebrations.|Babu Antony

Don’t get me wrong  growing up in Edinburgh   I was all too familiar with the Hibs and Hearts rivalry. My father grew up in Leith – Hibee territory – just off of Easter Road on Albert Street.|Graeme Souness

Country ham is baked whole          usually with a glaze sometimes studded with cloves     and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.|Kate Christensen

Each year in early spring     during the season of Lent   which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter a plenitude of books           magazine articles    and television shows about Jesus appear.|Jay Parini

During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem       no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter           not Christmas.|Nancy Pearcey

In the past      I’ve visited remote places – North Korea  Ethiopia        Easter Island – partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn’t ordinarily explore.|Pico Iyer

Winning the 2007 Master’s was a dream fulfilled; culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn’t write it up any better.|Zach Johnson

I remember my mom bought me one of their shirts for Easter so that I could wear Helmut Lang for Easter. That was my first piece.|Travis Scott

For practicing Christians     Easter Sunday and the Holy week that precedes it are the apex of our faith. Without the resurrection of Christ there is no Christianity.|Rachel Campos-Duffy

Prince was outside his dressing room        shaking one of those little Easter egg maracas. His hair was straightened to a soft wave; his eyelashes were unfairly lovely. He smelled like the most expensive shelf in the Sephora perfume aisle. This man wearing eyeliner heels and ladies’ perfume somehow managed to be more masculine than the burly bodyguard.|Mayte Garcia

What do you mean you don’t believe in homosexuality? It’s not like the Easter Bunny        your belief isn’t necessary.|Lea DeLaria

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync   like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.|Marvin Olasky

Most people outside of America won’t get it. It’s the Easter bunny. It’s another lie and I don’t understand why we had to invent this character.|Todd Rundgren

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

I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about people liberating themselves         freeing themselves.|Leon Uris

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life – it lives in the constant present.|John Guare

I cooked at the White House for Easter    last year        with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden      and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there   and they were really charming      it was great.|Jacques Pepin

I’ve got great people who handle my schedule    and everything does revolve around the children. If there’s a parents’ night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play   whatever it might be           then I plan everything around that.|Victoria Beckham

‘Rapa Nui’ is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It’s about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.|Jason Scott Lee

Somehow we just don’t make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly jolly Easter.|Frederica Mathewes-Green

Between the three     Facebook is literally everyone I’ve ever shaken hands with at a conference or kissed on the cheek at Easter. Twitter seems to be everyone I am entertained by or I wish to meet some day. Foursquare seems to be everyone I run into on a regular basis. All three of those social graphs are powerful in their own.|Dennis Crowley

To the casual observer        the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration            but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and ‘Chocolate Rain’ and allusions to ‘Office Space’ and ‘XKCD.’ It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd      and it kicked off a chain reaction.|Drew Houston

People come together with their families to celebrate Easter. What better way to celebrate than to spend a few hours going on the journey of Christ’s life.|Roma Downey

I was raised – and still consider myself to be – Catholic though I’m non-practicing and haven’t fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during the Nixon years. I’m assailed by all kinds of stimulating doubts            but I do believe in God.|Thomas Mallon

Over the years           I have been a house painter           farm worker paste-up artist          Easter Bunny pizza delivery person         homeless shelter staff member      and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness – I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.|Jennifer McMahon

My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York      and I would see things like the ‘Easter Bonnet’ or ‘Broadway Bares           ‘ things I would sneak into.|Max von Essen

My grandmother was a church organist    but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.|Zach Anner

Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But        you know      the day begins in most schools at nine o’clock         ends at 3.30 P.M. They have six weeks’ holiday during the summer   two weeks’ holiday at Easter and at Christmas. Yes   they don’t just work when they’re at school         but even so           compared to a lot of other jobs      it’s not that tough.|Toby Young

The old Rankin-Bass animated specials seemed to exist in a loosely shared reality  which is what attracted me to them. Santa Snow Miser  Rudolph        Frosty            even the Easter Bunny seemed to be on nodding acquaintance with each other   even if only in cameo appearances in each other’s cartoons.|Paul Dini

I understand Christmas       and I understand Easter. But Halloween is one of those things where if you don’t grow with it? The French           they tried Halloween for a few years       and I think they’re dropping it.|Jacques Torres

My grandmother and mother were from Italy      so I was raised Catholic. That kind of just meant going to church on Easter and Christmas. I saw a radical transformation in my family when they started going to a Christian church. I watched them fall in love with God.|Sonny Sandoval

I got ‘Reign In Blood’ for Easter one year – how ironic is that?|Joey Jordison

Like Christmas         Easter has lost much of its religious meaning in popular culture. Ask your average kid what the holiday is about and they will tell you all about the Easter Bunny         eggs hunts and baskets full of candy.|Rachel Campos-Duffy

There’s something special about big midweek games at Easter Road   under the lights        that makes us have that little bit extra about us.|John McGinn

I have to thank my mother for this. When I was a little boy she used to teach me poems. I would go in church and tell the poems in church for the Easter program      and again for Mother’s Day and any occasion she felt would fit. I was very energetic with delivery at that time as a boy so it stuck with me.|Rudy Ray Moore

Easter is an ancient festival of rebirth       but it’s also an excellent excuse for eating eggs. I really like eggs    of both the chocolate and chicken variety. But the chocolate ones      you must admit        can sustain only a fleeting interest. A sweet    sugary hit – and then it’s gone.|Alice Roberts

When I was in film school I had this great professor      Jerzy Antczak          a Polish filmmaker  and Joe Russo of the Russo Brothers were in my class. It was this kind of Easter European philosophy of motivating camera only through character and motions and just exploring with lenses. That was the best year of my education in my life.|Justin Lin

I’d love to go to Easter Island         Hawaii           Iceland and Antarctica.|KT Tunstall

I was born into the Church of England but in the most nominal way possible you can imagine      so it’s Christmas and Easter. And then like a great many clergy in the Church of England I actually got nobbled by being a chorister.|Richard Coles

The first Christians were formed by the first Easter into a new community that transcended all other commitments encompassing the tax collector Matthew a lackey of the occupying Romans           and Simon the Zealot      an insurrectionist.|Richard Coles

At Easter the family got together and we were giving one of my uncles a hard time about watching scary films because on the boat leaving Vietnam            when we were attacked by pirates he wet his pants.|Anh Do

We always have a traditional Easter egg hunt on Easter Sunday. My Aunt Lynne organises that for the family so we go to her house in Hampshire and it gets ever more elaborate every year.|Kate Garraway

I think the thing about Easter holidays in particular is you don’t know what the weather’s going to be like.|Kate Garraway

Robert Easter Jr. is a tough fighter who I have to take very seriously and I do           and that’s why we did a nine-week training camp and got the great sparring          got the right training           the right diet     everything.|Mikey Garcia

I remember during Easter one year            I was to get a pair of black patent shoes but you could only get them from the white stores       so my mother drew the outline of my feet on a brown paper bag in order to get the closest size because we weren’t allowed to go in the store to try them on.|Claudette Colvin

In our family and not just us but even with my cousins uncles and aunts      we celebrate every festival – be it Christmas     Easter Eid     Diwali or our birthdays.|Ananya Panday

I lost my biological father at nine  but up until then      we celebrated Christmas and Easter too.|Dia Mirza

Every Easter  at one household or another          I find a battle begins and the conversation of how to ‘properly eat’ a chocolate bunny.|Hilary Farr

Every year NYC hosts one of the world’s most famous Easter Parade. Each year attendees and participants show up in their Sunday best and as tradition states          with Easter bonnets in tow.|Hilary Farr

Usually my Easter reading consists of ‘Who Moved the Stone?            ‘ which gets dusted off annually and read         often in one sitting  to remind me of the miracle of redemption         resurrection and life after death.|Ann Widdecombe

You never create a scene around the Easter egg. The Easter egg is always just         ‘Oh     there’s an opportunity for something that the fans will enjoy if they can spot it.’|Kari Skogland

I grew up with Morecambe and Wise        they were part of Christmas           part of Easter            part of our lives. They were the top comedy act on television          watched by 25 million people.|Nigel Havers

They changed my life          and I just love Marvel as I’m sure people can tell from the amount of Easter eggs and references I did throughout it. But I just feel like I’ve done my part with ‘Loki      ‘ at least for now     and I’m excited to see where it goes next as a fan.|Kate Herron

M-G-M knew how to build stars. We used to do constant publicity stills. You were the Easter bunny one time and a Christmas tree the next. When I went to Japan they knew who I was. Now you have a great actress and a year later           they ask         ‘What happened to her?’|Cyd Charisse