Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Benedict XVI

We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.

John McCain

I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.'

John Guare

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

Leon Uris

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.

Karl Barth

What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God - which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - lasts forever. Because this event took place, there is no reason to despair, and even when we read the newspaper with all its confusing and frightening news, there is every reason to hope.

Josh McDowell

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.

Josh McDowell

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

Josh McDowell

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

John Keble

Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays.

Louis de Bernieres

I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Greek, that's my point.

Loretta Lynn

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

Malala Yousafzai

Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

Mahatma Gandhi

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

Joanna Newsom

People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.

Elizabeth Goudge

she had long accepted the fact that happiness is like swallows in Spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it. When you expect to be happy you are not, when you don't expect to be happy there's suddenly Easter in your soul, though it be midwinter.

John Bunyan

Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest laugh and rejoice; He was betrayed, that thou mightest go free; was apprehended, that thou mightest escape; He was condemned, that thou mightest be justified; and was killed, that thou mightest live; He wore a crown of thorns, that thou mightest wear a crown of glory; and was nailed to the cross, with His arms wide open, to show with what freeness all His merits shall be bestowed on the coming soul; and how heartily He will receive it into His bosom?

Joel Osteen

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

T. D. Jakes

Salvation is the root-the resurrection is the fruit.

Tupac Shakur

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

Vera Brittain

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

Victoria Beckham

I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

Rick Larsen

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

Stuart Townsend

How deep the Father's love for us, How vast beyond all measure That He should give His only Son To make a wretch His treasure.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

Sessue Hayakawa

I have come East to find what the public likes.

Keith Green

Christ is risen from the dead!

Keith Green

Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said!

Soren Kierkegaard

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.

Stephen Colbert

We all know why [the generals] are so critical of the defense secretary. They're being defensive because they weren't able to implement his brilliant plan [on screen: Operation 'Greet Us As Liberators']. It was so simple: Go in with 100,000 troops, topple the regime, everybody loves us, and we leave by Easter 2003. These ex-military men have their right to their opinions, that's fine. They just shouldn't voice them during a war [on screen: 'Loose Lips Sink Approval Ratings']

Thomas Jefferson

Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

Saint Augustine

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.