Our collection of Happy Easter quotes provides you with some ideas on what to include in cards, notes, and emails.
Easter is the holiest of days in most Christian religions, as it’s a celebration of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. It is preceded by Lent, a 40-day preparation time period where many followers fast and give alms in preparation.
Easter Quotes and Sayings
1.) Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin Luther
2.) Earth’s saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!
Susan Coolidge
3.) Twas Easter Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Good Easter Quotes — Risen Lord
4.) We live and die; Christ died and lived!
John Stott
5.) Christ the Lord is risen today, Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.
Charles Wesley
6.) Because of the empty tomb, we have peace. Because of His resurrection, we can have peace during even the most troubling of times because we know He is in control of all that happens in the world.
Paul Chappell
7.) Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.
Charles M. Crowe
8.) The fasts are done; the Aves said;
The moon has filled her horn
And in the solemn night, I watch
Before the Easter morn.
So pure, so still the starry heaven,
So hushed the brooding air,
I could hear the sweep of an angel’s wings
If one should earthward fare.
Edna Dean Proctor, from “Easter Morning”
9.) Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.
Clarence W. Hall
10.) It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.
Katharine Lee Bates
11.) But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Walter Raleigh
12.) Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
S.D. Gordon
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Religious Easter Quotations
13.) Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people, and hallelujah is our song.
Pope John Paul II
14.) The things that we love tell us what we are.
Thomas Aquinas
15.) I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he dies, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?
John 11:25-26
16.) To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas
17.) Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive…that is where God is.
Ignatius of Loyola
18.) The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.
Charles Stanley
Easter Quotes — Christ Has Risen
19.) The best proof that Christ has risen is that he is still alive. And for the immense majority of our contemporaries, the only way of seeing him alive is for us Christians to love one another.
Louis Evely
20.) A man who was completely innocent offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mahatma Gandhi
21.) Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within Thy wounds hide me. Permit me not to be separated from Thee. From the wicked foe defend me. At the hour of my death, call me. And bid me come to Thee. That with Thy saints I may praise Thee Forever and ever. Amen.
Ignatius of Loyola
Rejoice over the Resurrection Sayings
22.) The Gospels do not explain the Resurrection; the Resurrection explains the Gospels. Belief in the Resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith; it is the Christian faith.
John S. Whale
23.) Imagine Jesus crucified in your arms and on your chest, and say a hundred times as you kiss His chest, “This is my hope, the living source of my happiness; this is the heart of my soul; nothing will ever separate me from His love.
Pio of Pietrelcina
24.) As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives…
Job 19:25
25.) Ten little fingers,
Ten little toes,
On Christmas, he came,
On Easter, he rose.
Unknown
26.) It’s not about the bunny – it’s about the Lamb.
Unknown
27.) When life gives you more than you can stand, kneel.
Unknown
28.) Behold the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the World.
John 1:29
God’s Love Sayings
29.) God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
St. Augustine
30.) We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ, we are not sinners anymore.
Joel Osteen
31.) To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Bernhard Langer
Pope Francis Easter Quotes
32.) Love opens our eyes and enables us to see the great worth of a human being.
33.) Lent is a time for reconsidering our feelings, for letting our eyes be opened to injustice, to open our hearts to those suffering.
34.) Small gestures of love, of tenderness, of care, make people feel that the Lord is with us. This is how the door of mercy opens.
35.) To live Easter means to enter into the mystery of Jesus who died and rose for us.
36.) No one can be excluded from the mercy of God. The Church is the house where everyone is welcomed and no one is rejected.
37.) We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when His light illuminates the dark moments of our existence.
39.) Jesus Christ is risen! Love has triumphed over hatred; life has conquered death; light has dispelled the darkness!
Funny Easter Quotes
40.) My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
Amy Sedaris
41.) ’d be more impressed with Jesus’s resurrection if I’d never seen Weekend At Bernie’s.
Unknown
42.) If you see a rabbit laying little brown eggs, don’t eat ‘em. It’s not chocolate.
Unknown
43.) Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Benjamin Franklin
44.) Easter is the single time in a year when it is safe to put all your eggs in one basket.
Unknown
45.) Silly rabbit, Easter is for Jesus.
Unknown
46.) I’ve hidden all the Easter candy for the kids inside my stomach.
Unknown
47.) I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don’t even try to tell me different.
Dolly Parton
Short Easter Quotes
48.) The great gift of Easter is hope.
Basil C. Hume
49.) Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all your eggs in one basket.
Evan Esar
50.) Easter is very important to me. It’s a second chance.Â
Reba McEntire
51.) The Story of God is one of hope, promise and life eternal.
Anusha Atukorala
52.) Where flowers bloom, so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson
53.) Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is.
Jessica Harrelson
Inspirational Easter Quotes
54.) Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.
Janine di Giovanni
55.) The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.
Kate McGahan
56.) Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as as the survival of the soul.
Victor Hugo
57.) Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.
Charles M. Crowe
58.) For I remember it is Easter Morn and life and love and peace are all new born.
Alice Freeman Palmer
59.) Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Easter Faith Quotes
60.) The resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
61.) Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.
Floyd W. Tomkins
62.) Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
Watchman Nee
63.) People come together with their families to celebrate Easter. What better way to celebrate than to spend a few hours going on the journey of Christ’s life.
Roma Downey
64.) The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.Â
Robert Flatt
65.) Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, ‘Christ is risen,’ but ‘I shall rise.’
Phillips Brooks
Uplifting Easter Quotes
66.) Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.
Albert Lighton
67.) The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.
Carl Knudsen
68.) We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence.Â
Alice Morgan
69.) On Easter Day, the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.
Douglas Horton
70.) The angels rejoice with great zeal! The portals of heaven are ringing, Salvation. Salvation is real!
Greta Zwaan
71.) I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.
William P. Young
72.) The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with.
Siobhan Shaw
73.) Here is the amazing thing about Easter. The Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this: that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
T. D. Jakes
Easter Instagram Captions
74.) Somebunny loves you!
75.) Don’t worry, be hoppy.
76.) It’s Easter, for Peeps sake.
77.) Way to egg-cited for Easter.
78.) He is risen. Matthew 28:6
79.) 1 Cross + 3 Nails = 4 Given
80.) Happy Easter to all the good eggs.
81.) There’s no bunny like you.
82.) Spending time with these cute chicks.
83.) Hopped on over for some Easter fun.
The week leading up to Easter is Holy Week, with Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. Easter does not fall on one set day. Rather, it’s a movable feast. Traditional traditions include the Easter Bunny, Easter basket and eggs, and parades.
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is an author and publisher of Greeting Card Poet.
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