Funny Famous Easter Quotes
By: Tippy & Alfred
"The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and
the opportunity to start over no matter what my
circumstances."
~Robert Flatt
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"If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can
put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. You can nail
it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a
tomb, but it will rise!"
~Clarence W. Hall
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"It is the hour to rend thy chains,
The blossom time of souls."
~Katherine Lee Bates
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"The joyful news that He is risen does not change the
contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline,
sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual
power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the
sacrifice."
~Henry Knox Sherrill
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"Could life so end, half told; its school so fail?
Soul, soul, there is a sequel to thy tale!"
~Robert Mowry Bell
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"Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially
spiritual and timeless."
~Charles M. Crowe
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"Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer;
Death is strong, but Life is stronger;
Stronger than the dark, the light;
Stronger than the wrong, the right..."
~Phillips Brooks, "An Easter Carol"
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'Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him
catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him
say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise." '
~Phillips Brooks
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"On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer."
~Douglas Horton
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"Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life."
~S.D. Gordon
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"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."
~Richard Le Gallienne
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"Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes
or tombs to disprove spontaneous generation or even to prove
life eternal. It is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, a
day to banish doubts and seek the slopes where the sun is
rising, to revel in the faith which transports us out of
ourselves and the dead past into the vast and inviting
unknown."
~Author unknown, as quoted in the Lewiston Tribune
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"The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds."
~Joseph Addison
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"Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing."
~Albert Laighton
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"The fasts are done; the Aves said;
The moon has filled her horn
And in the solemn night I watch
Before the Easter morn.
So pure, so still the starry heaven,
So hushed the brooding air,
I could hear the sweep of an angel's wings
If one should earthward fare."
~Edna Dean Proctor, "Easter Morning"
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"God expects from men something more than at such times, and
that it were much to be wished for the credit of their
religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience
that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to
their Easter dress."
~Robert South, Sermons
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"Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!"
~Susan Coolidge
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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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"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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