Quotes about Easter
He bent down and looked in at the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in.
- John 20:5
God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.
- Acts 2:32
God raised Him up on the third day and caused Him to be seen—
- Acts 10:40
By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.
- 1 Corinthians 6:14
After that, He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.
- 1 Corinthians 15:6
But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
- 1 Corinthians 15:20
Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.
- 1 Peter 1:21
Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain, suffering, and agony. He atoned for our sins if we repent.
- James Faust
'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. 'It is finished' is a cry of victory.
- Stanley Hauerwas
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
I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
- Barack Obama
If I take Easter as the starting point, the one incontrovertible fact about how God treats those whom he loves, then human history becomes the contradiction and Easter a preview of ultimate reality.
- Philip Yancey