• I think of the garden after the rain;
And hope to my heart comes singing,
At morn the cherry-blooms will be white,
And the Easter bells be ringing! ~Edna Dean Proctor, "Easter Bells" |
• See the land, her Easter keeping,
Rises as her Maker rose.
Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,
Burst at last from winter snows.
Earth with heaven above rejoices... ~Charles Kingsley |
• Angels, roll the rock away;
Death, yield up thy mighty prey:
See, He rises from the tomb,
Glowing with immortal bloom. ~Thomas Scott, "Easter Angels" |
• The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. ~Joseph Addison |
• Once more to new creation Awake,
and death gainsay,
For death is swallowed up of life,
And Christ is risen today! ~George Newell Lovejoy |
• Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer;
Death is strong, but Life is stronger;
Stronger than the dark, the light;
Stronger than the wrong, the right...
~Phillips Brooks, "An Easter Carol" |
• Could life so end, half told; its school so fail?
Soul, soul, there is a sequel to thy tale!
~Robert Mowry Bell |
• Celestial spirit that doth roll
The heart's sepulchral stone away,
Be this our resurrection day,
The singing Easter of the soul -
O gentle Master of the Wise,
Teach us to say: "I will arise." ~Richard Le Gallienne |
• Easter so longed for is gone in a day. ~
share this Easter saying James Howell |
• “Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
“Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.”
~ Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless. ~
share this Easter saying Charles M. Crowe |
• Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals. ~
share this Easter saying Charles M. Crowe |
• Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter. ~
share this Easter saying Benjamin Franklin |
| • 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. ~Robert South, Sermons |
