Top 25 Easter Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”

— Pope John Paul II

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2. “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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3. “Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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4. “The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation – This story begins and ends in joy.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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5. “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”

— Paul the Apostle

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6. “Without Christ there is no hope.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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7. “If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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8. “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”

— Paul the Apostle

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9. “The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.”

— Timothy Keller

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10. “If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

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11. “Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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12. “Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.”

— Frederick Buechner

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13. “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”

— John the Baptist

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14. “There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter. The babe Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby without the redeeming Christ of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact of the Resurrection.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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15. “Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.”

— Ellen G. White

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16. “Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying ‘yes’ to God. In him we find joy.”

— Pope Francis

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17. “It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ’s Atonement shines.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

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18. “Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.”

— Pope Francis

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19. “Don’t undervalue yourself. God loves you. Your worth is what you are worth to God. Jesus died for you. You are of infinite value.”

— Nicky Gumbel

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20. “Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

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21. “Jesus plus nothing equals everything; everything minus Jesus equals nothing.”

— Tullian Tchividjian

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22. “Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.”

— James E. Faust

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23. “Jesus’s resurrection is the beginning of God’s new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord’s Prayer is about.”

— N. T. Wright

24. “When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?”

— Amy Carmichael

25. “For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”

— Paul the Apostle

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26. “If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters.”

— Jaroslav Pelikan

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