Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Goudge

she had long accepted the fact that happiness is like swallows in Spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it. When you expect to be happy you are not, when you don't expect to be happy there's suddenly Easter in your soul, though it be midwinter.

John Bunyan

Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest laugh and rejoice; He was betrayed, that thou mightest go free; was apprehended, that thou mightest escape; He was condemned, that thou mightest be justified; and was killed, that thou mightest live; He wore a crown of thorns, that thou mightest wear a crown of glory; and was nailed to the cross, with His arms wide open, to show with what freeness all His merits shall be bestowed on the coming soul; and how heartily He will receive it into His bosom?

Joel Osteen

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

John McCain

I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.'

John Guare

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

John F. Kerry

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

John Calvin

Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.

Garrison Keillor

Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.

John Dryden

The lovely Thais by his side, / Sat like a blooming Eastern bride.

Louis de Bernieres

I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Greek, that's my point.

Loretta Lynn

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

Malala Yousafzai

Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

Mahatma Gandhi

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

Holly Madison

I just feel kind of out of place on Easter. I feel kind of useless because everybody else has kids and I don't and I'm just standing there with nothing to do.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

Katharine Lee Bates

It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls.

Josh McDowell

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.

Josh McDowell

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

Josh McDowell

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

Franklin Graham

We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world.

John Keble

Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays.

Pope Benedict XVI

To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.

Pope Benedict XVI

We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

Pope Francis

Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world

Pico Iyer

In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.

Phillips Brooks

Christ will rise on Easter day!

Phillips Brooks

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.

Phillips Brooks

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

Up and down our lives obedient Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant, Till those garden lives shall be Fair with duties done for Thee; And our thankful spirits say, "Christ arose on Easter Day."

Phillips Brooks

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; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.

Philip Yancey

The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.