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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. -- John Paul II
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter. -- Josh McDowell
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
Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible. -- T. D. Jakes
What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Alison Rosen IWHI! From the easter egg chapter. -- Bryan Bishop
If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north. -- Jessica Day George
He's the only man I know of who can hide his own easter eggs. -- Bobby Heenan
Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day. -- James Howell
There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. -- S. D Gordon
Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart! -- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures. -- James E. Faust
Sherrill On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. -- Douglas Horton
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter. -- Benjamin Franklin
Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. -- Janine di Giovanni
It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls. -- Katharine Lee Bates
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. -- Saint Augustine
Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. -- Watchman Nee
To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. -- Bernhard Langer
We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore. -- Joel Osteen
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. -- William Penn
My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper. -- Amy Sedaris
I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life. -- Amy Sedaris
For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born. -- Alice Freeman Palmer
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. -- Martin Luther
What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary. -- Lea DeLaria
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. -- Soren Kierkegaard
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love. -- Olivia De Havilland
The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. -- Robert H. Schuller
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. -- Wallace Stevens
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil. -- Basil Hume
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
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
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
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. -- Jane Elliot
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
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
Up and down our lives obedient Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant, Till those garden lives shall be Fair with duties done for Thee; And our thankful spirits say, "Christ arose on Easter Day." -- Phillips Brooks
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 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
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
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation. -- Ezra Taft Benson
There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love. -- Charles Stanley
The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice. -- Henry Knox Sherrill
The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It tells us that the spiritual is higher than the material; that in this universe spirit counts for more than matter. -- Henry Parry Liddon
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
Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life. -- Ravi Zacharias
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross. -- Bono
Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth. -- Annie Besant
Easter is never deserved. -- Jan Karon
The Jews spend at Easter. -- George Herbert
Easter means that Christmas worked. -- Timothy Keller
Christ will rise on Easter day! -- Phillips Brooks
Easter's nearly here, now - Sing, world, sing! -- Nancy Byrd Turner
The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate. -- David Sedaris
Dear God, don't let us confine Easter to Easter. -- Matt Fitzgerald
Blessed are thoseto whom Easter is not a hunt... -- Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira
The Trial of Poppy Moon is free over Easter. -- John Corder
I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs. -- Simon Kinberg
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world. -- Barbara Johnson
Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance. -- Reba McEntire
I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism. -- Katharine Jefferts Schori
Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee. -- James Howell
Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God's saving, sovereign kingdom... -- N. T. Wright
The Easter Bunny is a major reason for heroin addiction in America. -- John Waters
So this chocolate princess. Her knight in shining armor is the Easter Bunny. -- Rachel Cohn
The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes. -- George Herbert
We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter. -- Chita Rivera
I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs. -- Jay-Z
You know what I'm doing for Easter? I'm gonna be hanging with my Peeps. -- Jay Leno
I use to believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Tom Cruise too. -- Barbara Bretton
Good Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Easter. Bad Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Xmas. -- Jack Handey
'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Resurrection does not come without crucifixion, and you cannot celebrate Easter without living Good Friday. -- Shannon Huffman Polson
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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. -- John Paul II
Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word. -- Thomas Jefferson
Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter. That maketh the leaf and the flower come out. -- Bertran de Born
I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.' -- John McCain
On Easter day let us promise to resurrect, transcend, and transform our conscience for the happiness of mankind. -- Debasish Mridha
I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket. -- Jim Butcher
Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it. -- Robert Barron
They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed. -- Bob Uecker
Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter. -- Fran Lebowitz
The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required. -- Philip Yancey
Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present. -- N. T. Wright
Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell. -- Bo Belinsky
Two Santa Clauses on the corner. How can you tell the Polish one? The one with the Easter basket. -- Henny Youngman
But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. -- John Suckling
In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade. -- Irving Berlin
When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes. -- Coretta Scott King
A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first." -- Robert Breault
Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham. -- Garrison Keillor
The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave. -- Bill Murray
What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists. -- Jared Diamond
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. -- Pinchas Lapide
In Australia...they celebrate Easter the same...by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit...left chocolate eggs in the night -- Bill Hicks
Hollywood is the only place on earth that has more vampires, more undead, more resurrections than a month of Easter Sundays. -- Roseanne Barr
Easter is all about remembering the importance of change, responsibility, and doing the right thing for the good of our children. -- David Cameron
We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust. -- Pope Benedict XVI

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