Easter
Quotes - I will always give you hope
“Now
for some hope. It's Easter Sunday. The day that is usually spent with family
and friends. This year is more chill. That's all. Just hanging out by staying
in. ON the other side of this we will all talk about this time. It will be like
where you were for the great quake of 1989 or 9-11 or where you were when JFK
was shot. It's going to be one of those kinds of moments. BUT the we made it
through those times. We will make it through this. We are stronger together.
Plus we will have a big Easter together next year! This year let's all just
chill in place.”
―
Johnny Corn
“I
will always give you hope. Here is why. We will get through this. I want you to
know this. This Easter I just chilled at home. So did you. Today I told a
friend who was feeling low I told her this. We are in this moment. I know it is
scary and depressing. BUT next year this will be a story. Maybe a topic of
conversation on a first date. When this whole thing is over it will be "do
you remember when" and we will get there. This too shall pass.”
―
Johnny Corn
“Everything
that God does is nothing that He needs done, for He is eternally complete. Yet,
He is never still and He is forever working. Therefore, I am left with both the
conviction and the evidence that God’s agenda is nothing other than that which
is incomplete in you and I.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Have
we ever considered that God is so enraptured with beginnings that He permits
the pain of endings so that we can experience the exhilaration of beginnings?”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“In
honor of the beginning of summer, Celina had cut out large shapes of palm trees
and sailboats from cardboard and painted them in vivid hues of pink, yellow,
and blue to showcase her ornately embellished chocolate eggs fashioned after
Richard Cadbury's original Victorian chocolate egg designs in England. Coral
rosebuds, trailing green vines, tiny bluebirds, palm trees, starfish, and
sailboats. Similar eggs had been popular at Easter, but these had themes of
summer in San Francisco. She had even created a large, molded chocolate Golden
Gate Bridge for one party.”
―
Jan Moran, The Chocolatier
“Today,
there is no doubt anything that was negative has been removed,
The
amount of positive is increasing;
The
mind and soul are so happy together,
So I
wish you a very Happy Easter.”
―
Rupali Mitra, Gilkhilla can't hunt Easter eggs
“People
who say 'everything happens for a reason' have never puked on their fiancé's
grandmother during Easter dinner.”
―
Kevin Molesworth, The Rudman Conjecture on Quantum Entanglement
“Death
precariously hangs a few scant inches over our heads, having been methodically
placed there one piece at a time by a lifetime of choices that we have made.
And until we understand the gravity of what hangs but a breath away, we will
not understand why Jesus hung on a cross to sweep it all away.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“God
did not wait for us to believe in ourselves before He acted out of His belief
in us.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Easter
tells us that God can raise anything that we can kill, including ourselves.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“If
we feel dead inside, it’s likely because we’ve been on a killing rampage most
of our lives. But we must remember that God is on a resurrection rampage as
well, and He’s bent on taking that rampage right to the center of everything
inside of us that we killed.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“God
allows us to believe that something can’t be done so that He can show us how
our ‘can’t’ is always His ‘can.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Death
is God’s opportunity, not our end.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I
would ask two questions. The first is, “How is that which is dead within me any
different from anything else that God has raised from the dead?” And the second
question would be, “How is His passion to raise the dead within me any
different than His passion to raise anything else that He has raised?” And the
answer to both is “It is not and it is not.” So, am I ready to be raised or am
I not?”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I
don’t know if you’ve ever thought about this before, but if death is beaten, so
is everything else. And because God set His sights on beating death, we can
build our lives on achieving anything.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“A
dead man walking out of a tomb utterly obliterates all of our tediously
constructed paradigms about life. And in pondering what God did that morning,
maybe we need to ask if our paradigms are, in fact, the very tombs that you and
I need to walk out of.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“If
something as dark as death is inevitable, why is it that something as
magnificent as eternity is any less inevitable? Maybe it’s because we’ve come
to define ‘inevitability’ based on the apathy of fear rather than the
anticipation of faith.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The
victory was sealed at an empty tomb. Therefore, we must remember that the
remaining battles are victory concluding, not victory in question.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The
Easter Vigil by Stewart Stafford
Nightfall
on Easter Saturday,
A
church in darkness,
Flickering
fire through stained glass,
Hope
so close yet out of reach.
The
Paschal candle is lit outside from a small garden bonfire,
And,
in reverent procession, brought indoors,
The
flaming beacon makes its entrance at the rear of the congregation,
The
mother candle bows, bestowing blazing brows on the humbler candles of those
assembled.
The
welcoming brightness gently spreads among the pews,
Confusing
darkness now a sea of light,
United
in illumination,
And
He is there.
―
Stewart Stafford
