Easter Quotes - Christmas and Easter can be
subjects for poetry
“Do
not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is
our song.”
―
Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła)
“Jesus's
resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away
from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after
all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.”
―
N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the
Mission of the Church
“If
man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody
conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus' fist, but by His
nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by
forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered
in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and
conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.”
―
A.W. Tozer, Preparing for Jesus' Return: Daily Live the Blessed Hope
“EASTER
HAS BEEN CANCELED—THEY FOUND THE BODY”
―
Jim Butcher, Storm Front
“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.”
―
W.H. Auden
“Hedwig
didn't return until the end of the Easter holidays. Percy's letter was enclosed
in a package of Easter eggs that Mrs. Weasley had sent. Both Harry's and Ron's
were the size of dragon eggs, and full of home-made toffee. Hermione's,
however, was smaller than a chicken's egg. Her face fell when she saw it.
"Your
mum doesn't read Witch's Weekly, by any chance, does she, Ron?" she asked
quietly.
"Yeah,"
said Ron, whose mouth was full of toffee. "Gets it for the recipes."
Hermione
looked sadly at her tiny egg.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Easter
was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the
future into the present.”
―
N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the
Mission of the Church
“And
now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also
of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to
live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?”
―
Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat
“Then
came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a
freeing time it was.”
―
Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player
“The
gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction,
transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the story,
we would have no hope. But the cross isn't the end. Jesus didn't escape from
death; he conquered it and opened the way to heaven for all who will dare to
believe. The truth of this moment, if we let it sweep over us, is stunning. It
means Jesus really is who he claimed to be, we are really as lost as he said we
are, and he really is the only way for us to intimately and spiritually connect
with God again.”
―
Steven James, Story: Recapture the Mystery
“Easter
is…
Joining
in a birdsong,
Eying
an early sunrise,
Smelling
yellow daffodils,
Unbolting
windows and doors,
Skipping
through meadows,
Cuddling
newborns,
Hoping,
believing,
Reviving
spent life,
Inhaling
fresh air,
Sprinkling
seeds along furrows,
Tracking
in the mud.
Easter
is the soul’s first taste of spring.”
―
Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry
for Every Day of the Year
“Remember
Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the
Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is
victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.”
―
Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat
“To
be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on
it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are
still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking
toward it full of trust.”
―
Pope Benedict XVI, Milestones: Memoirs: 1927 - 1977
“Easter
is never deserved.”
―
Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs
“God
is not interested in your art but, your heart.”
―
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
“In
the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently
lie in the decaying husks of something old.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“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, The Blackberry Bush
“It's
strange. How hollow i feel. Like there might be echoes inside of me. Like I'm
one of those chocolate rabbits they used to sell around Easter, the ones that
were nothing more than a sweet shell encapsulating a world of nothing. I'm like
that. I encapsulate a world of nothing.”
―
Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
“The
air of those rooms was saturated with the fine bouquet of a silence so
nourishing, so succulent, that I never went into them without a sort of greedy
anticipation, particularly on those first mornings, chilly still, of the Easter
holidays, when I could taste it more fully because I had only just arrived in
Combray[...]”
―
Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
“The
organist was almost at the end of the anthem’s long introduction, and as the
crescendo increases the cathedral began to glitter before my eyes until I felt
as if every stone in the building was vibrating in anticipation of the sweeping
sword of sound from the Choir.
The
note exploded in our midst, and at that moment I knew our creator had touched
not only me but all of us, just as Harriet had touched that sculpture with a
loving hand long ago, and in that touch I sensed the indestructible fidelity,
the indescribable devotion and the inexhaustible energy of the creator as he
shaped his creation, bringing life out of dead matter, wresting form
continually from chaos. Nothing was ever lost, Harriet had said, and nothing
was ever wasted because always, when the work was finally completed, every
article of the created process, seen or unseen, kept or discarded, broken or
mended – EVERYTHING was justified, glorified and redeemed.”
―
Susan Howatch
