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 Sherrill
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
Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing. ~Albert Laighton
Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty
and happiness. ~Floyd W. Tomkins
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the
activity of Spring in our blood. ~Wallace Stevens, 1916
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
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust. ~Walter Raleigh
The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise. ~Carl Knudsen
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