(49 quotes found)
“It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.”
Katharine Lee Bates
“Easter so longed for is gone in a day. ~”
Contributed by: Randi
James Howell
“Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away?”
Rev. Frederick William Faber
“The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.”
Basil C. Hume
“All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."”
Lyman Abbott
“Let all the jubilant sounds of earth swing up in one resonant wave of triumphant song.Let us robe ourselves in the sunny gladness of a hope so bright--the hope that defies death, and reaches across all the breadth of graves, and clasps the hand of an immortal friend, and says through any hour of sorrow, "It doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him"”
Isaac Massey Haldeman
“Easter is not a passport to another world; it is a quality of perception for this one.”
W. P. Lemon
“We do this is in the spirit of Easter. There's a need for fellowship — especially at a time like this.”
Chris Smith
“Spring bursts to-day, For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play.”
Christina G. Rossetti
“Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
