Funny Easter Quotes

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.

The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It tells us that the spiritual is higher than the material; that in this universe spirit counts for more than matter.

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

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.

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."

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.

Sherrill On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

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.

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.

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.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

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.

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

We live and die; Christ died and lived!

Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project.

Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter. That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.

Death is strong, but Life is stronger.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

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

Christ the Lord is risen to-day, Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.

Happy Easter everyone! Jesus dies, comes back from the dead - and we get chocolate eggs. It's like turn-down service from God.

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

There's no such thing as too much power!

There is no such thing as too much snow.

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

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.

You'll wake up on Easter morning, And you'll know that he was there, When you find those choc'late bunnies, That he's hiding ev'rywhere.

I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

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 amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn.

Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

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."

For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born.

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.