Quotes About Easter

The Easter holydays are kept up on shore during three days; and being a Catholic vessel, the crew had advantage of them. For two successive days, while perched up in the rigging, covered with tar and engaged in our disagreeable work, we saw these fellows going ashore in the morning, and coming off again at night, in high spirits. So much for being Protestants. There's no danger of Catholicism's spreading in New England; Yankees can't afford the time to be Catholics.

John Dominic Crossan demonstrates convincingly through art that "the West lost and the East kept the original Easter vision.

Creation is the first and probably the final Bible, Incarnation is already Redemption, Christmas is already Easter, and Jesus is already Christ.

In the larger-than-life, spiritually transformed people I have met, I always find one common denominator: in some sense, they have all died before they died. They have followed in the self-emptying steps of Jesus, a path from death to life that Christians from all over the world celebrate during Easter week.

How come you know when Easter is?" and he had replied: "Because it's the first Sunday after the first full moon after the twenty-first day of March, obviously." It had been a mistake to add "obviously," because Erman had punched him in the stomach for being sarcastic.

O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the world Thine own.

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

When I die, I would like Easter hymns sung at my funeral because they are so joyful. They're hopeful. They reflect our belief in the resurrection of the dead.

A good thing this was, and that we should be so care-free and irresponsible, enjoying every minute of every day; for it was the Easter of 1914, the last Easter of the old, easy world, and our last, as well as our first, Easter as children together in the little house I had built for happiness.

For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born.

La Pascua me satisface tanto como me deprime la Navidad. Un Dios que se convierte en bebé produce consternación. Un pobre tipo que se convierte en Dios es otra cosa

I think the thing about Easter holidays in particular is you don't know what the weather's going to be like.

Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear.

Like Christmas, Easter has lost much of its religious meaning in popular culture. Ask your average kid what the holiday is about and they will tell you all about the Easter Bunny, eggs hunts and baskets full of candy.

The Resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.

Celestial spirit that doth roll The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: "I will arise."

It appears obvious that, within this framework, the essence of the bread can be anything, or can be asserted to be anything. It could be the essence of the Easter Bunny, or it could be Jesus and the Easter Bunny both, or it could be the Five Original Marx Brothers, or it could be a million other spooks happily co-existing in the realm outside space-time where such metaphysical entities appear to reside.

that season when we remind each other of the judicial murder of a Jewish revolutionary two thousand years ago by distributing chocolate eggs to the children of people we dislike.

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

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

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

You look cute in your little uniform." [Jared] Did he read my mind or something? "Yeah? You don't think I look like an Easter egg?" "No. I think you look like I should be asking you to marry me." CRASH!

A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."