Easter
Quotes - Easter is our mistakes mercilessly slain
“Easter
does not change history. Rather, it transforms what history does to us and what
the future can do for us.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I
cannot bring myself to surrender to the belief that any ending is permanent,
despite the fact that many endings arrogantly allege that the scope of their
finality is sufficient to make just such a declaration. I have found that my
humanity rails against such declarations and therefore sets itself on a journey
(however perilous) to find a beginning nestled in the declared finality of
every ending. And in all of my many journey’s (as perilous as many of them have
been), I have yet to experience an ending that did not hold a beginning
somewhere within the finality of itself.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Easter
is the brazen declaration that there is nothing that we can destroy that need
remain destroyed.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Easter
opened up a crack in a universe winding down toward entropy and decay, sealing
the promise that someday God will enlarge the miracle of Easter to cosmic
scale.”
―
Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew
“Day
of the Dogwood by Stewart Stafford
If I
opened my veins,
With
the Saviour’s nails,
Will
your bloodlust go?
Where
compassion failed?
Do I
sweat out blood now?
Or
is it your crown of thorns?
Miracles
to silvered treachery,
Pure
as first Christmas morn.
Scattered
flock, shepherd leaves,
Can
you sheep know what you do?
Such
immaculate deception, but,
Know
this sacred heart was true.
©
Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
―
Stewart Stafford
“It
is something amazing God did for you and for me.”
―
Lisa Shores, Hope An Easter Story
“Acknowledging
our need to be saved admits that we haven’t done so ourselves and that we’re
somehow assuming that we’ll eventually show up to do it.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Easter
is our mistakes mercilessly slain.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Easter
is our tomorrow insured.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Easter
is where every ending would forever be held hostage to a beginning.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The
sorrow of Good Friday's sacrifice to the joy of Easter's dawn of victory is a
timeless testament to life's journey from despair to hope, from darkness to
light, from trial to triumph.”
―
Aloo Denish Obiero
“The
carnage of our lives can burn hot in the flames of our indiscretions, the greed
that hung us on the very leash that we thought we had firmly secured around it,
or the fool within us that thought ethics to be the hiding place of the
visionless coward. And over time we have come to believe that the resultant
carnage of these horribly errant ideologies carries a finality so irreversible
that our lives have no hope of being anything other than the ash and smoke that
we have recklessly turned them into. Yet, Easter is sufficiently formidable to
raise ashes into lives of astounding beauty and turn smoke into the fragrance
of hope eternally reborn.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“To
evaluate the probability of a new beginning as held against the overwhelming
number of our mistakes, or the suffocating gravity of our pain, or the
immensity of our losses is to forget that the most spectacular new beginnings
are forged from the raw materials embedded in these very things. Therefore, the
greater the things that would destroy us, the greater the new beginning that
stands in front of us.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Easter
is a Christmas after-party.”
―
Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
“Crucified
Love' lives with us today. He was , He is and He will always be.”
―
Henrietta Newton Martin, Author - The Greatest of All Romances- Your Potter’s
Call!
“There
is no Original Sin. There is no need for Jesus dying for something that didn't
happen.
Easter
is a Lie.”
―
Chidi Ejeagba
“…As
Sunday smiled and walked with me
I
pondered the timeless, cursed tree.
Such
weight of sin upon mere wood;
Only
this king could make Friday Good.
(Excerpt
from A Friend of Friday)”
― T
William Watts
“…As
Sunday smiled and walked with me
I
pondered the timeless, cursed tree.
Such
weight of sin upon mere wood;
Only
this king could make Friday Good.
(Excerpt
from “A Friend of Friday”)”
― T.
William Watts
“Easter
is joy, hope, love, and renewal.
Easter
is proof that we can begin again.”
―
Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every
Day of the Year
“What
if the empty tomb was simply God saying that the miracle that happened there is
just a foretaste of the miracles that can happen within us? And if that’s the
case, nothing within us is really dead. Rather, it’s just a bunch of stuff
waiting its turn to stand up and breathe again.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The
greatest jail break in all of history occurred on Easter morning. Therefore, we
must remember that whatever our prisons might be and however impenetrable they
might appear, your jail break is just a prayer away.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“For
many,
this
Easter day symbolizes rebirth. Is it only one day a year, though?
I
don’t think so. Each day we can choose in what we will place our faith.”
―
Charles F Glassman
“If
we live solely within the scope of our sorely limited humanity, the word ‘end’
will mean nothing other than what it says. But if we dare to live within the
scope of God’s eternal promises, every time the word ‘end’ appears the word
‘beginning’ will be hot on its heels.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“From
its very beginning Christianity has been the proclamation of joy, of the only
possible joy on earth. It rendered impossible all joy we usually think of as
possible. But within this impossibility, at the very bottom of this darkness,
it announced and conveyed a new all.-embracing joy, and with this joy it
transformed the End into a Beginning. Without the proclamation of this joy
Christianity is incomprehensible. It is only as joy that the Church was
victorious in the world, and it lost the world when it lost that joy, and
ceased to be a credible witness to it. Of all accusations against Christians,
the most terrible one was uttered by Nietzsche when he said that Christians had
no joy.”
―
Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
