Funny Famous Easter Quotes 3
By: Tippy & Alfred
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"Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter
That maketh the leaf and the flower come out."
~Bertran de Born
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"Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply
in terms of things but in terms of ideals."
~Charles M. Crowe
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"But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust."
~Walter Raleigh
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"He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born."
~Alice Freeman Palmer
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"Thou art the Sun of other days.
They shine by giving back the rays."
~John Keble, "The Christian Year: Easter Days"
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"We live and die; Christ died and lived!"
~John Stott
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"Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!"
~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"
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"See the land, her Easter keeping,
Rises as her Maker rose.
Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,
Burst at last from winter snows.
Earth with heaven above rejoices..."
~Charles Kingsley
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"'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Once more to new creation Awake, and death gainsay,
For death is swallowed up of life,
And Christ is risen today!"
~George Newell Lovejoy
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"Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and
weakness and despair to strength and beauty
and happiness."
~Floyd W. Tomkins
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"There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou - Thou art Being and Breath,
And what Thou art may never be destroyed."
~Emily Bronte
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"Ye sleeping buds, break
Open your green cerements, and wake
To fragrant blossoming for His sweet sake."
~Margaret French Patton
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"Angels, roll the rock away;
Death, yield up thy mighty prey:
See, He rises from the tomb,
Glowing with immortal bloom."
~Thomas Scott, "Easter Angels"
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"Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time."
~Martin Luther
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"This is the promise that He hath promised us, even eternal life."
~1 John 2:25
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"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
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"Dating from Easter, life took on a newness which made it a
different kind of life not known before - life that will not
be content until all the world comes alive. Despair is
death, and despair faded from the minds of men who believed.
Fear is death, and fear no longer invaded the still hours.
Cowardice is death, and cowardice ceased to be a part of
those who knew Easter."
~Glenn H. Asquith
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"Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian
holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we
saw during the winter Olympics."
~Marvin Olasky
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