Quotations for Easter

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

Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. ~Clarence W. Hall


It is the hour to rend thy chains,
The blossom time of souls.~Katherine Lee Bates


Could life so end, half told; its school so fail?
Soul, soul, there is a sequel to thy tale!~Robert Mowry Bell


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


The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.~Joseph Addison


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


On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. ~Douglas Horton


God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress. ~Robert South, Sermons