Christian Easter Quotes

Jesus’s resurrection is the beginning of God’s new project.

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.”

See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices.

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; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.

Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter. That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.

Jesus’s resurrection is the beginning of God’s new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord’s Prayer is about.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

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.

We live and die; Christ died and lived!

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.”

A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born.

Death is strong, but Life is stronger.

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.

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.

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!’

And all that is therein; Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend, For Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.

You’ll wake up on Easter morning, And you’ll know that he was there, When you find those choc’late bunnies, That he’s hiding ev’rywhere.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ’s sufferings!

Christ is risen from the dead!

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.

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.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls.