EASTER QUOTES

quotations about Easter

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

POPE JOHN PAUL II

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Yes, Jesus rose from the dead. No, he's not a zombie.

JIMMY KIMMEL

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Easter is on Sunday. Americans buy an estimated $120 million pounds of candy for Easter every year. I hope Jesus comes back as a dentist.

JIMMY KIMMEL

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New Rule: Someone must x-ray my stomach to see if the Peeps I ate on Easter are still in there, intact and completely undigested. And I'm not talking about this past Easter. I'm talking about the last time I celebrated Easter, in 1962.

BILL MAHER

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On Easter Sunday morning, Christians will come together in one of the most globally-unifying annual events to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Although we often get together with family and friends on Easter, it is easy to forget just how unifying that day is. About 2.2 billion people, nearly one-third of the world's population, will put aside their differences and all give thanks to God.

JASON RUSSELL

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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.

PHILLIPS BROOKS

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If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. Forever Easter.

DAVID HOUSHOLDER

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For many, Easter is a glorious skyrocket that suddenly bursts over our heads a shower of brilliance and joy but soon falls cold to the earth. The memory of its glory lingers for a while but soon fades with the resumption of normal activities. An argument could be made for giving less emphasis to Lent and more to the season of Easter. Yet, we err to even try to define Easter as a season. No, Easter is not truly a season but an event which radically alters the way we view all the seasons of life. Through the resurrection we transcend earth, time, and seasons.

RUSSELL F. ANDERSON

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Two thousand years ago Jesus is crucified, three days later he walks out of a cave and they celebrate with chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps and beautifully decorated eggs. I guess these were things Jesus loved as a child.

BILLY CRYSTAL

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Easter is the soul's first taste of spring.

RICHELLE E. GOODRICH

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On Easter we celebrate Christ's Resurrection as something that happened and still happens to us. For each one of us received the gift of that new life and the power to accept it and to live by it. It is a gift which radically alters our attitude toward everything in this world, including death. It makes it possible for us joyfully to affirm: "Death is no more!" Oh, death is still there, to be sure and we still face it and someday it will come and take us. But it is our whole faith that by His own death Christ changed the very nature of death, made it a passage--a "passover," a "Pascha"--into the Kingdom of God, transforming the tragedy of tragedies into the ultimate victory.

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

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Morning red! Morning red!
Now the shadows all are fled;
Now the Sabbath's cloudless glory
Tells anew the wondrous story,
Christ is risen from the dead.

ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND

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For Christians, Easter is like the Super Bowl. We celebrate the fact that Jesus conquered the grave.

JEFFERSON DENIM

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Christmas is cute and cozy, it's about a baby. Easter is about the death that the same baby would grow up to suffer. It's much more grim. No wonder people choose to displace it with chocolate.

TIM FARRON

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Doth His Easter radiance glow within thy life's full years
And with unturning hallowed flow, bring gladness to thy fears?
Hope that sought thee in thy pain with flowers thy brow adorns!
Today the roses bloom again where yesterday were thorns!

HARRIET MAXWELL CONVERSE

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The Lord liveth, alleluia!
Angels rolled the stone away,
Praises winged from harps and timbrels
Hover o'er earth's living symbols,
Lilies wake from dark earth's keeping; bright wings burst your bands today
The Lord liveth, alleluia!
Angels rolled the stone away.

MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN

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Thirty thousand kids and their parents participated in the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, which has been going on for years. At this point there has to be thousands of undiscovered Easter eggs on the lawn of the White House. Future civilizations will think we were ruled by chickens.

JIMMY KIMMEL

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Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts,
How sang the angelic choir that day,
When from his tomb the imprisoned God,
Like the strong sunrise, broke away?

FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER

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You know what I'm doing for Easter? I'm gonna be hanging with my Peeps.

JAY LENO

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Awake, thou wintry earth--
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
Christ is risen.

THOMAS BLACKBURN

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