"Look at the cross and you will know what one soul means to Jesus."
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"Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'."
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"The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children."
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"There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three."
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"Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood."
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"Christ is risen from the dead!"
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"Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said!"
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"Today was the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Usually when you see something rolling on the White House lawn it's a drunk Secret Service agent."
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"He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity."
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"Easter means that Christmas worked."
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"Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With Him mayst rise: That, as His death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just."
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"Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength."
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"Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter."
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"On Easter, the Pope asked for peace in the Middle East. There are two groups the Pope has to contend with - Jewish people and Muslims. They couldn't wait to hear his suggestions."
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"I was over in Australia during Easter, which was really interesting. You know, they celebrate Easter the exact same way we do, commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus by telling our children that a giant bunny rabbit left chocolate eggs in the night. Now I wonder why we're f-ked up as a race. I've read the Bible. I can't find the word "bunny" or "chocolate" anywhere in the f-king book."
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"Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word."
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"Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter."
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"So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true."
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"The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking."
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"What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it."
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