Easter quotes
410 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
"How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God."
"Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death."
"God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'"
"'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy."
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"A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me."
"I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines."
"In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!"
"If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East."
"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."
"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."
"Do not put all your eggs in one basket."
"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."
"We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world."
"Don't put all your eggs in one basket."
"To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred."
"Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope."
"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'"
"Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection."
"I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs."
"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
"We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world."
"He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart"
"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."
"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."
