Famous Easter Quotes

All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!
By Lucy Van Pelt on Chocolate

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

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

Easter so longed for is gone in a day.
By James Howell on Easter

I think of the garden after the rain; and hope to my heart comes singing, "At morn the cherry-blooms will be white, And the Easter bells be ringing!"
By Edna Dean Procter on Easter Bells

In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, You’ll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade.
By Irving Berlin on Easter Bonnet

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.
By Robert South on Easter Dress

Then I met Martin Luther. He taught me, that a Christian should be cheerful. Then I met Christ. He was even more shrewd, he whispered in my ear: Let them strike us dead on Black Friday, we will fool them on Easter Morning.
By Kai Munk on Easter Morning

If Easter means anything to modern man it means that eternal truth is eternal. You may nail it to the tree, wrap it up in grave clothes, and seal it in a tomb; but truth crushed to earth, shall rise again. Truth does not perish; it cannot be destroyed. It may be distorted; it has been silenced temporarily; it has been compelled to carry its cross to Calvary's brow or to drink the cup of poisoned hemlock in a Grecian jail, but with an inevitable certainty after every Black Friday dawns truth's Easter Morn.
By Donald Harvey Tippet on Eastern Morning

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! On the third morning He arose, bright with victory o'er his foes. Sing we lauding, and applauding, Hallelujah!
By John Mason Neale on He Arose

Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day; Who did once upon the cross Suffer to redeem our loss. Hallelujah!
By Latin Hymn of the 15th century on Jesus Christ

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

"Christ the Lord is risen today," Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.
By Charles Wesley on Jesus Christ

Easter is not a passport to another world; it is a quality of perception for this one.
By W. P. Lemon on Perception

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

'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Trees

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