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Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.
I lost my biological father at nine, but up until then, we celebrated Christmas and Easter too.
They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed.
There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.
Two Santa Clauses on the corner. How can you tell the Polish one? The one with the Easter basket.
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.
The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.
So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.
Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.
Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.
To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.
In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade.
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Am I really gonna deny someone the opportunity of a lifetime just because they met me 5 easters early?
I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.
A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.
People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.
In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy.
When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes.
There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.
Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.
Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.
Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.
I think the thing about Easter holidays in particular is you don't know what the weather's going to be like.
We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.
The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different.
The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.
We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings!
Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!
I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.
What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
What do you mean, you "don't believe in homosexuality?" It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.
The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive, it is so much more. The message of Easter is that Jesus has risen!
Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service.
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'