Easter Quotes - Page 4

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

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.

The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!

I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs.

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

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

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

When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

We live and die; Christ died and lived!

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

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.

I am very attracted by the mysterious landscape of Easter Island. Not only because it is a piece of land that is further away from another, but also because of the beautiful statues of Moai that are there. To do a beautiful walk there, I would have to involve the Moai, and the Rapa Nui people who live on the island.

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

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.

So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown.

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.

They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed.

I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event.

When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes.

The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip; Our grief over those who have gone on is diminished; Our desires to press on in spite of the obstacles is rejuvenated... Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!'