Short Easter Religious Quotes

And all that is therein; Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend, For Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end. ~ John Of Damascus

Comedy is the only hope for humanity. ~ Roseanne Barr

Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present. ~ N. T. Wright

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

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. ~ Watchman Nee

The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

We'll hop home, as we hares have done since time immemorial. ~ Leen Lefebre

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary. ~ Alexander MacLaren

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven. ~ Rick Warren

In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade. ~ Irving Berlin

I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer

Dear God, don't let us confine Easter to Easter. ~ Matt Fitzgerald

New Rule: Someone must x-ray my stomach to see if the Peeps I ate on Easter are still in there, intact and completely undigested. And I'm not talking about this past Easter. I'm talking about the last time I celebrated Easter, in 1962. ~ Bill Maher

Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation. ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists. ~ Jared Diamond

The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact. ~ Paul Althaus

Easter. The only time it's okay to put all of your eggs in one basket! ~ Unknown

Christ will rise on Easter day! ~ Phillips Brooks

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday. ~ Fulton J. Sheen

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. ~ Marvin Olasky

There is no "religious language" or "scientific language". There is rather the international notation of mathematics and logic; and English, French, Spanish and the like. In short, "religious discourse" and "scientific discourse" are part of the same overall conceptual structure. Moreover, in that conceptual structure there is a large amount of discourse, which is neither religious nor scientific, that is constantly being utilized by both the religious man and the scientist when they make religious and scientific claims. In short, they share a number of key categories. ~ Kai Nielsen

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it. ~ Blaise Pascal

A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The Jews spend at Easter. ~ George Herbert

Easter time reminds us that we have every right to believe that this hope is based on time-tested truths and a solid foundation. ~ Sarah Palin

Easter was around long before Christianity. It was called Estrus and was a fertility celebration in the spring in Northern lands. The rabbit was a symbol of fertility because of its ability to breed and produce many young. Out of that tradition came our Easter Bunny. In Australia we celebrate Easter but it occurs in autumn, not spring. We inherited the Easter Bunny but in the past few years, there has been a movement to change to an Easter Bilby in order ~ M.E. Skeel

Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Easter is never deserved. ~ Jan Karon

Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell. ~ Bo Belinsky

Why don't they make chocolate horses for Easter with a belly full of gummy bears. Educational and sweet! ~ Neil Leckman

I am going to kill the fuck out of you now," he informs the Easter bunny. ~ Matt Wallace

You know what I'm doing for Easter? I'm gonna be hanging with my Peeps. ~ Jay Leno

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

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

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

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing. ~ Nathanael Emmons

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

The Easter Bunny is a major reason for heroin addiction in America. ~ John Waters

I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism. ~ Katharine Jefferts Schori

On Easter we wrap up pretty, little decorated eggs symbolizing life and renewal. We do this because of the intangibility of a promised gift, which is the eventual resurrection of the body, restored to its finest forever state. Easter celebrates life and the idea of its eternal value, most notably the life of the gift-giver who demands nothing in return. He is your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket. ~ Jim Butcher

I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different. ~ Dolly Parton

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. ~ Pope John Paul II

EASTER HAS BEEN CANCELED - THEY FOUND THE BODY ~ Jim Butcher

The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive, it is so much more. The message of Easter is that Jesus has risen! ~ Colin S. Smith

The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave. ~ Bill Murray

Two Santa Clauses on the corner. How can you tell the Polish one? The one with the Easter basket. ~ Henny Youngman

To summarize, Easter Sunday is the most important Sunday. It is the Sunday of all Sundays. It is the day of the new beginning of the entire cosmos, the day of resurrection.

In our worship we must be careful not to reduce our message to the Easter fact only. The Easter fact must include the message this fact proclaims: God makes all things new. It must also include the message that we have been raised with Christ. Calling God's people to die to sin and rise to the new life is central not only to Easter day but to the Easter season. ~ Robert E. Webber

Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us. ~ Denis Leary

The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies. ~ Kate McGahan

A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first." ~ Robert Breault

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. ~ Janine Di Giovanni

But oh, she dances in such a way!
No sun upon an Easter-day
Is half so fine a sight. ~ John Suckling

The secrets of dreams keep us safe
Reminding our subconscious
Of what we can't face in our waking hours. ~ Sandra Easter

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter. ~ Chita Rivera

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

So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true. ~ Gerhard E Frost

I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs. ~ Jay-Z

He was a fat little man with short arms, short legs, a short neck, short nose, short everything in fact. ~ Guy De Maupassant

I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If the resurrection of Jesus from the dead on that Easter Sunday were a public event which had been made known ... not only to the 530 Jewish witnesses but to the entire population, all Jews would have become followers of Jesus. ~ Pinchas Lapide

Today was the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Usually when you see something rolling on the White House lawn it's a drunk Secret Service agent. ~ Conan O'Brien

Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled; culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn't write it up any better. ~ Zach Johnson

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. ~ Nicolas Cage

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music. ~ Tim Crane

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary. ~ Lea DeLaria

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

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. ~ S.D. Gordon

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. ~ Robert H. Schuller

Easter's nearly here, now -
Sing, world, sing! ~ Nancy Byrd Turner

If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. Forever Easter. ~ David Housholder

People come together with their families to celebrate Easter. What better way to celebrate than to spend a few hours going on the journey of Christ's life. ~ Roma Downey

To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred. ~ Antonin Scalia

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

Easter is the final solution to the finality of death. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There was one activity that Bonhoeffer would enjoy in Barcelona, but could never enjoy in Berlin. That was the arte taurina (bull fighting). Though an aesthete and an intellectual, Bonhoeffer was neither effete nor squeamish. His brother Klaus arrived for a visit on Easter Saturday, and on Easter afternoon - Bonhoeffer preached that morning - they were "dragged" by a German teacher, presumably Thumm, to the "great Easter corrida." He ~ Eric Metaxas

Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God's saving, sovereign kingdom ... ~ N. T. Wright

I'll never forget that Depression Easter Sunday. Our son was four years old. I bought ten or fifteen cents' worth of eggs. You didn't get too many eggs for that. But we were down. Margaret said, 'Why he'll find those in five minutes.' I had a couple in the piano and all around. Tommy got his little Easter basket, and as he would find the eggs, I'd steal 'em out of the basket and re-hide them. The kid had more fun that Easter than he ever had. He hunted Easter eggs for three hours and he never knew the difference. (Laughs.) "My son is now thirty-nine years old. And I bore him to death every Easter with the story. He never even noticed his bag full of Easter eggs never got any fuller. . . . ~ Studs Terkel

Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter. ~ Frederica Mathewes-Green

If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is wrong to be insincere. The best time to begin a religious life is when you are youthful and well. If you have a short time to live, you must work harder at it. And if you have along time to live, you should not waste that precious opportunity. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear. ~ Jay Parini

Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service ... ~ John Ellerton

People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. ~ Alan K. Simpson

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy. ~ Kevin James

We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death. ~ Pope Benedict XVI

Hundreds of barefoot Filipinos marched on the roads through the Philippines carrying heavy wooden crosses and whipping their backs until they bled to prepare for Easter. Call me old-fashioned but I just like coloring the eggs. ~ Jay Leno

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. ~ Todd Rundgren

Government sponsorship of religious activity, including prayer services, sacred symbols, religious festivals, and the like, tends to secularize the religious activity rather than make government more ethical or religious. ~ John M Swomley

Easter recognizes that I am living in a prison of my own making, and that God is in the demolition business. ~ Craig D Lounsbrough

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war against radical Islam, which means that anything short of pure reverence for them generates tribal rage and vilification. ~ Glenn Greenwald

And through times of separation and trial, we learn the value of friendship and trust. ~ Tori Easter

We ask that streams of Easter light might flow into the intimacy and privacy of our hearts this morning, to heal us and encourage us and enable us to make again a new beginning. ~ John O'Donohue

Easter is God throwing everything at death so that I can give everything to life. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore. ~ Pico Iyer

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east. ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins

There is no such thing as too much snow. ~ Doug Coombs

Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor. ~ Charles Spurgeon