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Quotations for Easter
The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances. ~Robert Flatt And life and love and peace are all new born. ~Alice Freeman Palmer Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays. ~John Keble, The Christian Year: Easter Days We live and die; Christ died and lived! ~John Stott Awake, thou wintry earth - Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness! ~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn" Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter. ~Benjamin Franklin 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 'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Spanish Student Once more to new creation Awake, and death gainsay, For death is swallowed up of life, And Christ is risen today! ~George Newell Lovejoy Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness. ~Floyd W. Tomkins 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 And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here. ~St Augustine Ye sleeping buds, break Open your green cerements, and wake To fragrant blossoming for His sweet sake. ~Margaret French Patton The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise. ~Carl Knudsen 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" Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. ~Wallace Stevens, 1916 Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. ~Martin Luther I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing, At morn the cherry-blooms will be white, And the Easter bells be ringing! ~Edna Dean Proctor, "Easter Bells" I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs. ~Caroline Rhea Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter That maketh the leaf and the flower come out. ~Bertran de Born Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals. ~Charles M. Crowe 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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