Easter
Quotes - The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love
never dies
“God
declared that the end of ourselves need not be the end of ourselves. And if we
don’t somehow find that exhilarating, we will end ourselves.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“It’s
not that God can’t rescue us. It’s that we choose not to be rescued because
we’re too blind to see the necessity of it.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“We
simply forget all this—so busy are we, so immersed in our daily
preoccupations—and because we forget, we fail. And through this forgetfulness,
failure, and sin, our life becomes "old" again—petty, dark and
ultimately meaningless—a meaningless journey toward a meaningless end. We
manage to forget even death and then, all of a sudden, in the midst of our
"enjoying life" it comes to us: horrible, inescapable, senseless.”
―
Alexander Schmemann, Great Lent: Journey to Pascha
“It
would behoove us to remember that the life we live involves the death of
something so that it can become the birth of something.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Despite
how dark it might be, what is tonight but the precursor to tomorrow?”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“His
small but showy comb seemed to grow in courage with each move he took.”
―
Leen Lefebre, Ebba, the first Easter Hare (SPRING)
“No
one on this earth simply succeeded in stopping feelings from running wild, and
surely not because his or her thoughts wanted it badly.”
―
Leen Lefebre, Ebba, the first Easter Hare (SPRING)
“His
tiny toes wiggled as they were ready to go.”
―
Leen Lefebre, Ebba, the first Easter Hare (SPRING)
“The
greatest gifts of all create space for the greatest sacrifices imaginable. For
if we simply receive something that does not press us to give something in
return, we will die fat with possessions but starved of meaning.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Far
too often I have assumed something as impossible because I’ve held my
limitations up against the magnitude of the challenge. But when I choose to
hold God up against the magnitude of the challenge, then what becomes
impossible is my ability to see it as impossible.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The
very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.”
―
Kate McGahan
“Maybe
I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings
that were about to birth those beginnings.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Easter
is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of
life.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“We
focus on Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, but we forget to pause in the
stillness of the days between. Find time today to be present in that place of
waiting. There is treasure to be found in the sacred peace that comes as you
breathe in that place of quiet surrender. Don’t rush through the space called
“Between.”
―
Katherine J Walden
“Want
to know the coolest thing about the coming? Not that the One who played marbles
with the stars gave it up to play marbles with marbles. Or that the One who
hung the galaxies gave it up to hang doorjambs to the displeasure of a cranky
client who wanted everything yesterday but couldn't pay until tomorrow.
Not
that he, in an instant, went from needing nothing to needing air, food, a tub
of hot water and salts for his tired feet, and, more than anything, needing
somebody - anybody - who was more concerned about where he would spend eternity
rather than where he would spend Friday's paycheck.
Or
that he resisted the urge to fry the two=bit, self-appointed hall monitors of
holiness who dared suggest that he was doing the work of the devil.
Not
that he kept his cool while the dozen best friends he ever had felt the heat
and got out of the kitchen. Or that he gave no command to the angels who
begged, "Just give us the nod, Lord. One word and these demons will be
deviled eggs."
Not
that he refused to defend himself when blamed for every sin of every slut and
sailor since Adam. Or that he stood silent as a million guilty verdicts echoed
in the tribunal of heaven and the giver of light was left in the chill of a
sinner's night.
Not
even that after three days in a dark hole he stepped into the Easter sunrise
with a smile and a swagger and a question for lowly Lucifer - "Is that
your best punch?"
That
was cool, incredibly cool.
But
want to know the coolest thing about the One who gave up the crown of heaven
for a crown of thorns?
He
did it for you. Just for you.”
―
Max Lucado, He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart
“Of
course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt
me to follow a God who did anything less?”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Easter
says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find
its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“To
summarize, Easter Sunday is the most important Sunday. It is the Sunday of all
Sundays. It is the day of the new beginning of the entire cosmos, the day of
resurrection.
In
our worship we must be careful not to reduce our message to the Easter fact
only. The Easter fact must include the message this fact proclaims: God makes
all things new. It must also include the message that we have been raised with
Christ. Calling God's people to die to sin and rise to the new life is central
not only to Easter day but to the Easter season.”
―
Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality through the
Christian Year
