Easter sunday quotes

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◆ Lord, the resurrection of Your Son has given us new life and renewed hope. Help us to live as new people in pursuit of the Christian ideal. Grant us wisdom to know what we must do, the will to want to do it, the courage to undertake it, the perseverance to continue to do it, and the strength to complete it.

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◆ God our Father, by raising Christ your Son you conquered the power of death and opened for us the way to eternal life. Let our celebration today raise us up and renew our lives by the Spirit that is within us. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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◆ On this Easter Sunday.... Forgive someone. Tell someone you love them. Let your light shine.

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◆ The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice.

- Henry Knox Sherrill99

◆ Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.

- Charles M Crowe99

◆ 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 C Hume99

◆ 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.

- St Augustine99

◆ The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.

- Robert Flatt99

◆ On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.

- Douglas Horton99

◆ 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 Brooks99

◆ This is the promise that He hath promised us, even eternal life. (1 John)

- Bible99

◆ Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.

- Albert Laighton99

◆ If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise!

- Clarence W Hall99

◆ Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.

- Charles M Crowe99

◆ To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

- Bernhard Langer99