Quotes About Easter

Easter egg hunts and parades are nothing new to any household or city, however nobody does it better then the Big Apple.

Without Good Friday, there is no Easter; without Easter, there is no deliverance from evil; without deliverance from evil, there is no victory of light over dark, of love over hate, of life over death.

LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.

Mary Magdalene is recorded in the Gospels as present at the Crucifixion and at Christ's burial, and to have gone, with other women, to the tomb on Easter morning. She is the first to have learned the tomb was empty. She heard from an angel that Christ had been raised. She is the first person to have seen Jesus after his resurrection. She is the first to have proclaimed Jesus was raised from the dead. She plays a central place in Jesus's ministry.

He maintains a stony expression rivalling the heads of Easter Island.

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

The idea is that Jesus overcame death through the Resurrection. What that does is fail to appreciate the fact that the resurrected Christ is the crucified Christ. It's not like, 'Oh, that was just a mistake, now it's over.' Jesus continues to suffer from our sins.

I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.

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

For practicing Christians, Easter Sunday and the Holy week that precedes it are the apex of our faith. Without the resurrection of Christ there is no Christianity.

We always have a traditional Easter egg hunt on Easter Sunday. My Aunt Lynne organises that for the family, so we go to her house in Hampshire and it gets ever more elaborate every year.

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

human redemption was accomplished through Jesus's death and resurrection.

Lent is rather seeing how to take steps into God's future so that we are no longer defined by what is past and no longer distracted by what we have treasured or feared about the present. Lent is for embracing the baby given to old people; resurrection to new life in Easter; and the offer of a new world made by God from nothing.

Easter-egg hunt ~ Roald Dahl loved Easter, especially the eggstraordinarily eggciting and eggstremely eggstravagant egg hunts he went on as a child.

I reach under Mongo, and my hand lands on something squishy. I grab hold of it, and pull out an orange bunny Peep from a long ago Easter. Even I wouldn't eat it now. The scary thing is, it still looks perfectly fine. Dusty, but fine. I think Dr. Grady was wrong. At the end of the world will be bacteria, cockroaches, and Peeps.

Easter is God's 'yes' to Jesus against the powers who killed him" (2006, 205; italics in original).

He felt intact but worthless, like a chocolate rabbit selling for 75 percent off the month after Easter.

I gave the dog a last scratch and he smiled and wagged his heavy tail. He didn't look like a dog that stole and ate children. He looked like a dog that might steal chocolate-covered Easter eggs.

I lie back on the bed and listen to the sounds of Easter—the optimist's holiday, the holiday with the suburbs in mind, the day for all those with sunny dispositions and a staunch belief in the middle view, a tiny, tidy holiday to remember sweetly and indistinctly as the very same day through all your life.

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

I remember my mom bought me one of their shirts for Easter so that I could wear Helmut Lang for Easter. That was my first piece.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

You'll wake up on Easter morning, And you'll know that he was there, When you find those choc'late bunnies, That he's hiding ev'rywhere.