Easter Quotes
Good
Friday
"Jesus took my place on the cross to give me a place in heaven."
[unknown]
"No scene in sacred history
ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find
such consolation as on that very spot where misery reigned, where woe triumphed,
where agony reached its climax." [C. H. Spurgeon]
"That Jesus of Nazareth died upon a cross is mere matter of history; that He who
did so die was the Christ the Son of God is entirely a matter of revelation."
[Sir Robert Anderson]
"...death was not Jesus' penalty; it was His destiny. It was not His lot in
life; it was His mission. It was not His unavoidable fate; it was His purpose
statement for coming to earth that first Christmas: 'Born to die.'" Bill
Crowder, The Path of His Passion]
"Our old history ends with the cross; our
new history begins with the resurrection." [Watchman Nee]
"Jesus went to the cross because God is holy and sin must be punished." [John K.
Hutcheson, Sr.]
"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;
Faith and Hope triumphant say
Christ will rise on Easter Day."
Phillips Brooks, An Easter Carol
“The highest act of love is the giving of
the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving.
That’s what God did. At the loss of His Son’s life to the totally undeserving,
God gave the best gift – the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of
God.” [John Piper]
"Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of
Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted from
selfishness to sacrifice." [John Weber]
"The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of
Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all
creation." [C. H. Spurgeon]
"Remember, the Savior offered His forgiveness to
others before they wanted it...The Redeemer's first word from the cross is a
prayer not for those who are lovable, but for those who are thoroughly
detestable." [Andrew W. Blackwood, Jr. - Comments on Jesus statement "Father,
forgive them; for they know not what they do."]
"The cross on which the Savior hung was not a tragic incident in the earth-life
of the Son of God but rather the climax of a deliberate plan made in the
councils of heaven before the creation of the present order of the cosmos."
[Harold Rimmer]
"If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without
water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without
tidings, a comfort for infidels, jubilant joys to the devil, and an offense to
God." [Robert E. Lee - On the Preaching of the Cross]
"We
do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and
idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it." [James,
Cardinal Gibbons]
"And they crucified him, and parted his garments,
casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They
parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots." [Matthew
27:35]
"The cross has become so widely used as religious jewelry...even a sign of good
luck that it has lost much of it original meaning and horror. It has become so
generally accepted, in fact, that everyone from devoted followers of Christ to
hard rock musicians wear its image around their necks." [Jesus, Who is this Man
who says He's God?, p. 7, Radio Bible Class]
"Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling" [Augustus M. Toplady,
Hymn: Rock of Ages]
"The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it
was also the expression of man’s unutterable malignity." [Sir Robert Anderson]
"The Cross! There, and there only (though the
deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there
only, is the power to save." [William Cowper]
"The devil has convinced so many people that they are worthless. Each of us
needs to stop and remember the cross—at the cross we will discover our true
value— for it is here that we discover the price God was willing to pay for us,
the depth of His love, and how much we are worth to Him." [Roy Lessin]
"It has been the cross which has revealed to good men
that their goodness has not been good enough." [Johann Hieronymus Schroder]
"For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that
Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried,
and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures." [Paul in 1
Corinthians 15:3, 4]
Resurrection
"I am the resurrection and the life. He
who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.
And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?"
[Jesus Christ - John 11:25, 26]
"Let the resurrection joy lift us from
loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness."
[Floyd W. Tomkins]
"Easter says you can put truth in the grave but it won't stay there." [Clarence
W. Hall]
"In the
bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen
to-day,
Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud,
with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!" [Martin Luther]
"Christ the Lord is
risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high;
Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply." [Charles Wesley]
"Christ is risen! With this victorious cry the gospel has passed through the
lands. The message of the cross is at the same time a message of resurrection
[Acts 1:22; 2:32]. In this lies its invincibility." [Eric Sauer]
"The resurrection of the dead is the chief truth of the Christian faith....He who
takes away the resurrection mantles our future with Egyptian darkness. To take
away the resurrection is to leave man with no preeminence above the
beast....Other doctrines are important; this is one of the essentials."
[Robert L. Moyer]
"The point is not that the resurrection is the price paid for our sins. The
point point is that the resurrection proves the death of Jesus is an
all-sufficient price. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then his death was a
failure, God did not vindicate his sin-bearing achievement, and we are still in
our sins."
[John Piper commenting on 1 Corinthians 15:17]
"And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which
was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid
him." [Mark 16:6]
"The tomb of Christ is famous because of what it DOES NOT CONTAIN."
[Sam Morris]
"Christianity begins where religion ends...with the
resurrection." [Herbert
Booth Smith
]
"The cross is the victory, the resurrection is the triumph...The resurrection is
the public display of the victory, the triumph of the crucified one." [Eric
Sauer]
"What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? Which is the
more difficult, to be born or to rise again? That what has never been, should
be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into
being than to return to it." [Blaise Pasal]
"For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: And if Christ be not
raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins." [1 Corinthians 15:16, 17]
"They have all the artlessness of simple honesty. They furnish just such
testimony as the facts would warrant, and such as plain people convinced beyond
any question or doubt would give. They have all the signs of veracity." [Doremus
H. Hayes - Comments on the resurrection narratives found in the four Gospels.]
God manifest in flesh, oh wonder to behold
Creative power within the breast that felt the blast of cold.
God in our likeness made, oh may we understand
The One who made the wondering worlds appears as lowly man
He stood within the realm He fashioned with a thought,'
His creatures gazed upon Him; alas they knew Him not,
They cried out for His blood, His claims cast down as dross,
They spat upon His princely face, then nailed Him to a cross.
But He made the tree for that cross of wood.
He made the hill on which it stood,
And in some hidden vein of land
He made the steel that pierced each hand;
He made the sun which hid its face;
He made the fathers of that race
Who, in their hatred knew Him not.
He made the fiends with which He fought
And there, in death, He made a way Back to Himself Eternally.
[Willie Mullan]
"Men point to the sad incidents of human life on earth, and they ask “Where is the love of God?” God points to that Cross as the unreserved manifestation of love so inconceivably infinite as to answer every challenge and silence all doubt for ever. And that Cross is not merely the public proof of what God has accomplished; it is the earnest of all that He has promised." [Sir Robert Anderson]
"The biggest fact about
Joseph's tomb was that it wasn't a tomb at all - it was a room for a transient.
Jesus just stopped there...on His way back to glory."
[Herbert Booth Smith]
"The
resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a
single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been
established as a fact." [Paul Althus]
David F. Strauss in his denial of the resurrection stated that the resurrection
is
"...centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been
until now." [David F. Strauss 1804 - 1874]
"Apart from
the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church...appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub."
[Richard R. Niebuhr]
"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?"
[John Bunyan]
"The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no
means always written legibly for all men on
the face of nature. It tells us that
the spiritual is higher than the material;
that in this universe spirit counts
for more than matter."
[H. P. Liddon]
"Jesus cannot
forget us; we have been graven on the palms of his hands."
[Lois Picillo]
"We
believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence
and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.
[Alexander Maclaren]
"The cross of Christ shows us that God's love is of deepest descent...universal
distribution
...and of eternal duration."
[Dr. Fred Barlow]
"The stone was rolled away from the door, not to permit Christ to come out,
but
to enable the disciples to go in."
[Peter Marshall]
"The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our
illnesses don't seem
nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip; Our grief over those
who have
gone on is diminished; Our desires to press on in spite of the obstacles is
rejuvenated...Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening
shadows of saints
down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice:
'He is risen, indeed!'"
[Charles Swindoll]
"For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ
died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that
He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures...And if Christ is not
risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who
have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hope
in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable." [Apostle Paul - 1 Corinthians
15:3,4,17-19 NKJV]
"We have no tomb in Christianity because we have no corpse."
[Padre Sahib]
"The resurrection gives my life meaning and
direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances."
[Robert Flatt]
"It was inevitable that Jesus Christ should be
crucified. It was also inevitable that He should rise again."
[H. R. L. Sheppard]
"No pain, no palm; no thorns,
no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown." (William Penn)
"We live and die: Christ died and lived!"
[John Stott]
"Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his
death." [Soren Kierkegaard]
"All heaven is interested in the cross of
Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more
or less ignore its meaning." [Oswald Chambers]
"Now let the heavens be joyful,
Let earth her song begin:
Let the round world keep triumph,
And all that is therein;
Invisible and visible,
Their notes let all things blend,
For Christ the Lord is risen
Our joy that hath no end."
[John of Damascus]
"To Him I owe my life and
breath,
And all the joys I have;
He makes me triumph over death,
And saves me from the grave."
[Samuel Stennett A. D. 1787]
