Easter
Quotes - I am pressed to admit
“Like
a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our
souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil of our lives
until the seed of the Word of God itself begins to grow in us, comes to fruit
in us, ripens in us the spiritual journey of a lifetime. So goes the liturgical
year through all the days of our lives. /it concentrates us on the two great
poles of the faith - the birth and death of Jesus of Nazareth. But as Christmas
and Easter trace the life of Jesus for us from beginning to end, the liturgical
year does even more: it also challenges our own life and vision and sense of
meaning. Both a guide to greater spiritual maturity and a path to a deepened
spiritual life, the liturgical year leads us through all the great questions of
faith as it goes. It rehearses the dimensions of life over and over for us all
the years of our days. It leads us back again and again to reflect on the great
moments of the life of Jesus and so to apply them to our own ... As the
liturgical year goes on every day of our lives, every season of every year,
tracing the steps of Jesus from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, so does our own life
move back and forth between our own beginnings and endings, between our own
struggles and triumphs, between the rush of acclamation and the crush of
abandonment. It is the link between Jesus and me, between this life and the
next, between me and the world around me, that is the gift of the liturgical
year. The meaning and message of the liturgical year is the bedrock on which we
strike our own life's direction. Rooted in the Resurrection promise of the
liturgical year, whatever the weight of our own pressures, we maintain the
course. We trust in the future we cannot see and do only know because we have
celebrated the death and resurrection of Jesus year after year. In His life we
rest our own. ― Joan D. Chittister, The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling
Adventure of the Spiritual Life - The Ancient Practices Series”
―
Joan D. Chittister, The Liturgical Year
“There
are an incalculable number of things within me that I frantically wish to be
emptied of, and despite my most earnest efforts to remove them, they remain.
And it is Easter that reminds me that God empties out tombs.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Easter
is a marvelous affirmation of the genius of our design, but it is likewise the
blunt acknowledgement that left to its own devices, the genius of our design
will result in the destruction of our lives.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I
am pressed to admit that I don’t have the capacity to understand the bloodied
horrors of a cross and the wild exhilaration of an empty tomb. But at the point
that I think I completely understand God, I have at that very point humanized
Him and in that very action I have lost Him. Therefore, I much prefer to simply
marvel.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Sooner
or later I will realize that the very things I most desperately need are the
very things I am unable to give myself. Therefore, I will either be left
despising the fact that I am doomed to live out a life that is perpetually
empty, or I will realize that an empty tomb is the single thing that will
eternally fill me.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“It
is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is
failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.”
―
Michael Leunig
“What
would behoove me to instantly declare God not to be God unless He followed my
script in some tediously exacting manner? I must confess that I am less likely
to believe that it’s a matter of some narcissistic demand that I freely pen my
own script. Rather, I think it’s fear that I’m too inadequate to follow God’s.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Easter
is the final solution to the finality of death.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“A
god of the ‘possible’ is no God.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“God
emptied out that first tomb so that He could turn around and empty out me.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Although
I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy
of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy
of God’s beginning.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“There
would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.”
―
Gordon B. Hinckley
“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, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short
Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Easter
blessings
All
life’s sacrifices like autumn leaves
awaken
our senses
and
power to love and be whole
Our
Mother Earth, Our Father Sky
embraces
our happiness and laughter
Praise
be to freedom and life’s seasons
Praise
be to Christ’s freedom song”
―
Ramon Ravenswood, Twilight Zone Encounters
“To
give myself over in the service of others may mean that I will forfeit
everything that I want, but it also means that I will receive everything that I
need. And if I am not big enough to let go of the former, then I am not yet big
enough to handle the latter.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Easter
is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God
did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of ‘doing’
happens every day.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
