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Easter

The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances. – Robert Flatt

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

Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless. – Charles M. Crowe

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

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing. – Albert Laighton

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live and die; Christ died and lived! – John Stott

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter. – Benjamin Franklin

Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness. – Floyd W. Tomkins

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

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, 1916

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. – Martin Luther

I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs… but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs. – Caroline Rhea

Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals. – Charles M. Crowe

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. – Pope John Paul II

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. – Bernhard Langer

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore. – Joel Osteen

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes – undisturbed in form and position. – Josh McDowell