– Easter Proverbs –
The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.
~ Carl Knudsen
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
~ Bernhard Langer
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 C. Hume
We live and die; Christ died and lived!
~ John Stott
Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.
~ Clarence W. Hall
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
The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.
~ Robert Flatt
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust.
~ Walter Raleigh
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
~ Pope John Paul II
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
No man can follow Christ and go astray.
~ William H.P. Faunce
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
~ S.D. Gordon
Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.
~ Charles M. Crowe
On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.
~ Douglas Horton
Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.
~ Floyd W. Tomkins
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
Awake, thou wintry earth– Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness! Christ is risen.
~ Thomas Blackburn
I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.
~ John 11:25-26
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
Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer;
Death is strong, but Life is stronger;
Stronger than the dark, the light;
Stronger than the wrong, the right…
~ Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”
Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generation or even to prove life eternal. It is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, a day to banish doubts and seek the slopes where the sun is rising, to revel in the faith which transports us out of ourselves and the dead past into the vast and inviting unknown.
~ Author Unknown
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
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.
~ H.P. Liddon
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
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
~ Martin Luther
Celestial spirit that doth roll
The heart’s sepulchral stone away,
Be this our resurrection day,
The singing Easter of the soul –
O gentle Master of the Wise,
Teach us to say: “I will arise.”
~ Richard Le Gallienne
