Get Into the Spirit of Easter by Reading These Joyous Quotes
There's nothing sweeter than getting to spend time with your loved ones on Easter. Even the busy members of the Drummond family make it a point to get together on that holy Sunday year after year! (The photos are always so fun, too.) Though, before you head into the thick of the holiday, it's pivotal that you remember the reason you even celebrate it. This list of Easter quotes does just that, and they'll inspire a moment of reflection as you dive into your holiday activities and Easter brunch.
These uplifting quotes are sweet, humorous, and act as a reminder of God's love and the beauty of second chances. Some of the Easter wishes on this list might be new to you, but other messages and Easter movie quotes might ring familiar in your head! Either way, they all do a great job of relaying the true message of the holiday. This quote by Robert Flatt is a good example: “If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave but it won’t stay there.” Some are short and simple enough to act as an Easter Instagram caption! This quote by Luther Burbank says it all: “Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is.” Read the rest of these best Easter quotes below!
1 Corinthians 16:14
“Let everything you do, be done in love.”
Jessica Harrelson
“Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is.”
Audrey Hepburn
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
Charles Wesley
“Christ the Lord is risen today, sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; sing, ye heavens and earth reply.”
Victor Hugo
“Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.”
Pope Francis
“We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence.”
Jeffrey R. Holland
“He knows the way because He is the way.”
John 20:29
“Blessed are those who have not seen and have yet believed.”
Henri Matisse
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
Psalm 118:24
“Let us rejoice.”
Hal Borland
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
Pablo Neruda
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
St. Augustine
“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.”
C.S. Lewis
“I believe in Christ, like I believe in the sun— not because I can see it, but by it I can see everything else.”
William Penn
“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”
Charles M. Schulz
“All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt!”
Sophie Swetchine
“Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.”
Søren Kierkegaard
“Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.”
Frederic William Farrar
“By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!”
Clarence W. Hall
“If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave but it won’t stay there.”
Gordon P. Hinckley
“There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.”
Alice Freeman Palmer
“For I remember it is Easter Morn and life and love and peace are all new born.”
Basil Hume
“The great gift of Easter is hope.”
Kate McGahan
“The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.”
Billy Graham
“God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’”
Bernard Williams
“The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day He created spring.”
Janine Di Giovanni
“Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.”
Christopher Greer
“How can we joyfully anticipate Easter Sunday’s power without mournfully remembering our weakness?”
T.D. Jakes
“Salvation is the root – the resurrection is the fruit.”
James A. Harnish
“Easter promises that what God does in the resurrection of Jesus is God’s intention for the entire creation.”
Pope Francis
“May the risen Jesus grant hope to all the poor, to those living on the peripheries, to refugees and the homeless.”
Max Lucado
“After Your Son lay three days in a dark hole, you turned the darkest Friday into the brightest Sunday.”
Lady Bird Johnson
“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.”
Siobhan Shaw
"The Easter eggs symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we've surrounded ourselves with that limits our thoughts and beliefs. As we break open our hearts and minds we discover a transformation to new, life enhancing thoughts and beliefs."
Sir Robert Anderson
"The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man’s unutterable malignity."
Philip Ledyard Cuyler
"So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty to Him in the days of His darkness, for the time when we shall enter into His triumph in the days of His light."
Isaac Watts
"At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light,
And the burden of my heart rolled away,
It was there by faith I received my sight,
And now I am happy all the day!"
John Henry Newman
"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living."
Samuel Rutherford
"The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor."
Camila Alves
"Easter is one of my favorite holidays with the kids. They get to run loose, and we always have our family and loved ones all around us!"
John Piper
"Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain."
Ed Drew
"Easter can be the highlight of the year. Better than Christmas. Bigger than a birthday. And about so much more than just chocolate."
Carl Knudsen
“The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.”
Billy Graham
"We shall never understand the extent of God’s love in Christ at the Cross until we understand that we shall never have to stand before the judgment of God for our sins."
Dolly Parton
"I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and true love. Don’t even try to tell me different."
J. Ellsworth Kalas
"Easter is an answer. It is such a dramatic, earthshaking answer that for nearly twenty centuries, artists of every kind and quality have been trying to portray its significance."
Siobhan Shaw
"The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with...”
Trudi Strain Trueit
"The world is waking up after a long winter. Easter is a time to celebrate life!"
Martin Luther
"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."
Dick Sheppard
"It was inevitable that Jesus Christ should be crucified. It was also inevitable that He should rise again."
J.C. Ryle
"Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book."
Evan Esar
"Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all of your eggs in one basket."
Floyd W. Tomkins
"Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness."
S.D. Gordon
"Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life."
Charles M. Crowe
“Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.”
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