Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible, it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
~ W. H. Auden
The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
~ Phillips Brooks
Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.
~ Charles M. Crowe
Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.
~ Charles M. Crowe
The soul's emphasis is always right.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
No, we can never think that Jesus died in despair or "of a broken heart," as some have said. He was dying in victory, not defeat. He foresaw, if anyone ever did, that future which is more real than the present.
~ Frederick C. Grant
If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise!
~ Clarence W. Hall
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 the to dust, His life may make thee gold, and much more, just.
~ George Herbert
On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.
~ Douglas Horton
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.
~ A.E. Housman
Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has burst His bands asunder; He has borne our sins away; Joyful tidings, Yes, the Lord has risen to-day.
~ Thomas Kelley
The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise.
~ Carl Knudsen
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
~ Lao Tzu
Easter is not a passport to another world; it is a quality of perception for this one.
~ W.P. Lemon
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born!
~ James Russell Lowell
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
~ Martin Luther
What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? Which is the more difficult to be born or to rise again? It is more difficult to come into being than to return to it?
~ Blaise Pascal
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
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
Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet / And all the things are made young with young desires.
~ Francis Thompson
Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.
~ Floyd W. Tomkins
