Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. ~~ Soren Kierkegaard~~ -------------- Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, “Christ is risen,” but “I shall rise. ~~ Phillips Brooks~~ |
The stone was rolled away from the door, not to permit Christ to come out, but to enable the disciples to go in. ~~ Peter Marshall~~ --------------- All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning. ~ ~Oswald Chambers~~ ------------- The cross is the victory, the resurrection is the triumph…The resurrection is the public display of the victory, the triumph of the crucified one. ~~ Eric Sauer~~ --------------- |
~~Mahatma Gandhi~~
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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
~~Billy Graham~~
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We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
~~Dwight L. Moody 9 ~~
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To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
~~Bernhard Langer~~
~~Joel Osteen~~
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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
~~Pope John Paul II~~
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We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
~~Joel Osteen Read~~
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It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
~~Robert H. Schuller~~
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~~Charles Stanley~~
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God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
~~Bede Griffiths~~
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Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
~~William Barclay~~
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~~Deepak Chopra~~
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I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.
~~Daniel Morgan~~
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I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.
~~Keith O'Brien Read~~
~~Josh McDowell~~
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Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
~~Josh McDowell~~
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Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
~~E. Stanley Jones~~
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To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.
~~William Tyndale~~
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~~Kenneth Scott Latourette~~
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The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
~~Basil Hume~~
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~~T. D. Jakes~~
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Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.
~~Marvin Olasky~~
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~~Robert South~~
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I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
~~Leon Uris ~~
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~~Carl Knudsen~~
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On this Easter Sunday… Forgive someone. Tell someone you love them. Let your light shine.
~ Author Unknown
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Earth’s saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!
~~Susan Coolidge~~
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Let the whole world join the happy lay, Let the hills and vales break forth in singing, Christ, the Lord of Life, is ris’n today.
~~ Lizzie Akers~~
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Good Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Easter. Bad Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Xmas.
~~ Jack Handy~~
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Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
~~ Martin Luther~~
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Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.
~~ Charles M. Crowe~~
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Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.
~~ Floyd W. Tomkins~~
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We live and die; Christ died and lived!
~~ John Stott~~
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But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust.
~~~ Walter Raleigh~~
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Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.
~~ Benjamin Franklin~~
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Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
~~ S.D. Gordon~~
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Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.
~~ Clarence W. Hall~~
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Could life so end, half told; its school so fail?
Soul, soul, there is a sequel to thy tale!
~~ Robert Mowry Bell~~
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The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.
~~ Robert Flatt~~
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We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.
~ ~Alexander Maclaren~~
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Live in the awareness that Christ lives and that He lives in His people.
~~ Julien B. Weil~~
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The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact.”
~~ Paul Althus~~
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The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It tells us that the spiritual is higher than the material; that in this universe spirit counts for more than matter.
~ ~H. P. Liddon~~
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