Easter so longed for is gone in a day.
James Howell
The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.
Robert Flatt
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
S.D. Gordon
Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.
Clarence W. Hall
Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Benjamin Franklin
It is the hour to rend thy chains,
The blossom time of souls.
Katherine Lee Bates
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
He who wants Lent to seem short should contract a debt to be repaid at Easter
Could life so end, half told; its school so fail?
Soul, soul, there is a sequel to thy tale!
Robert Mowry Bell
Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.
Charles M. Crowe
A late Easter, a long cold spring.
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
On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.
Douglas Horton
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
S.D. Gordon
Green Christmas, white Easter
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.
Albert Laighton
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Walter Raleigh
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born.
Alice Freeman Palmer
Thou art the Sun of other days.
They shine by giving back the rays.
John Keble
We live and die; Christ died and lived!
John Stott
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 Proctor
Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter
That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.
Bertran de Born
Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.
Charles M. Crowe
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
Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Benjamin Franklin
‘Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Once more to new creation Awake,
and death gainsay,
For death is swallowed up of life,
And Christ is risen today!
George Newell Lovejoy
Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.
Floyd W. Tomkins
There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou – Thou art Being and Breath,
And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
Emily Bronte
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
Ye sleeping buds, break
Open your green cerements, and wake
To fragrant blossoming for His sweet sake.
Margaret French Patton
The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.
Carl Knudsen
Angels, roll the rock away;
Death, yield up thy mighty prey:
See, He rises from the tomb,
Glowing with immortal bloom.
Thomas Scott
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
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
Martin Luther