Easter
Quotes - The greatest joy
“An
ending is the illusion that we create because we believe that God will
eventually reach some end so final that it will exceed His ability to create.
And that’s the illusion that we need to stop creating.”
―
Craig D Lounsbrough
“Tear
up these joyful bluish skies,
For
a glimpse of this majesty, I thirst!
Cherubs
in glittering clouds of white,
Dazzling
royalty in gold and mantle of red...”
―
Chinonye J. Chidolue
“Easter
Contemplations
It
does not concern me
If
this life is all I have.
I do
not need a resurrection
Or
reincarnation
Or
to live with the gods.
It
is enough to live
With
you here
In
the days of your presence.
When
my breathes
Are
complete,
Lay
me by your side
In
the dust.
As
in life, so in death.
Let
us become one
With
each other again.”
―
Eric Overby, Journey
“Thus
on Easter we celebrate Christ’s Resurrection as something that happened and
still happens to us. For each one of us received the gift of that new life and
the power to accept it and to live by it. It is a gift which radically alters
our attitude toward everything in this world, including death. It makes it
possible for us joyfully to affirm: "Death is no more!" Oh, death is
still there, to be sure and we still face it and someday it will come and take
us. But it is our whole faith that by His own death Christ changed the very
nature of death, made it a passage—a "passover," a
"Pascha"—into the Kingdom of God, transforming the tragedy of
tragedies into the ultimate victory. "Trampling down death by death,"
He made us partakes of His Resurrection. This is why at the end of the Paschal
Matins we say: "Christ is risen and life reigneth! Christ is risen and not
one dead remains in the grave!”
―
Alexander Schmemann, Great Lent: Journey to Pascha
“Maybe
every now and then I need something ‘unbelievable’ to happen to help make that
which is ‘believable’ a place where I start, but not a place where I stop.”
―
Craig D Lounsbrough
“Easter
recognizes that I am living in a prison of my own making, and that God is in
the demolition business.”
―
Craig D Lounsbrough
“Christ
to the thief: Come with me. We die together, a thief and the Maker of the
world. Walk with the Infinite made flesh into the belly of the whale. Stand
close while reality quakes. Watch while Death is taken by the throat. Today you
will be with me in Paradise.
Stories
don't end at death.”
―
N.D. Wilson, Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken
World
“...the
liturgical traditions of the Church, all its cycles and services, exist, first
of all, in order to help us recover the vision and the taste of that new life
which we so easily lose and betray, so that we may repent and return to it. ...
It is through her liturgical life that the Church reveals to us something of
that which "the ear has not heard, the eye has not seen, and what has not
yet entered the heart of man, but which God has prepared for those who love
Him." And in the center of that liturgical life, as its heart and climax,
as the sun whose rays penetrate everywhere, stands Pascha.”
―
Alexander Schmemann, Great Lent: Journey to Pascha
“Jesus
was born in a borrowed barn, he was buried in a borrowed tomb, and in-between
it all he borrowed mankind’s sin with the intent of never returning it.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The
greatest joy is not finding something that we’ve been looking for. The greatest
joy is when we’d given up on ever finding it and then it found us.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“If
I’m only looking at an ending, I’ll assume that an ending is all that there is.
And without a doubt, that kind of assumption is the beginning of the end.”
―
Craig D Lounsbrough
“If
death is inevitable, who’s to say that there aren’t other things that are
inevitable as well? A cross and an empty tomb say ‘yes’ and ‘yes’.”
―
Craig D Lounsbrough
“I
don’t have it within me to do what God does for me. That’s why he’s God and I’m
not.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I
don’t need to paint a picture of what I want my life to look like. What I need
to do is to study the picture that God painted of me so that I can better
understand how to live out the splendor of the painting.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“We
can walk to ‘nowhere’ and think that ‘nowhere’ is ‘somewhere.’ For such are the
roads paved by men. Yet, the humility of a manger and the magnificence of a cross
constructed a road to the ‘everywhere’ that forever abolished the ‘nowhere’ of
men.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Why
don't they make chocolate horses for Easter with a belly full of gummy bears.
Educational and sweet!”
―
Neil Leckman
“The
unbelievable is nothing more than my lack of faith in action. Easter is nothing
less than God building my faith by putting the unbelievable into action.”
―
Craig D Lounsbrough
“Men
expect a return on what they give, while God returns any such expectations on
what He gives.”
―
Craig D Lounsbrough
“Every
ending will meet its own end, for every ending is destined to be swallowed up
by a beginning.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“We’ll
hop home, as we hares have done since time immemorial.”
―
Leen Lefebre, Ebba, the first Easter Hare (SPRING)
“I
incessantly wallow in the ‘muck and mire’ of the terrible messes that I have
made. And when I realize that God has long ago removed all the ‘muck and mire,’
I suddenly understand that the only wallowing that’s going on is in my head.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
