Quotes about Easter

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The same power that stopped the sun and raised Christ from the grave lives in every believer!