51 Short Easter Quotes for a Happy Holiday

Use these short Easter quotes to wish a happy Easter to your friends, family, colleagues and followers. A great collection of general Easter wishes that are a mix of funny, religious, short and sweet.

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Easter Quotes

“Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.” – Charles M. Crowe

“We no longer live within the day on which death seemed victorious. We live in the day that came three days after. We call it Easter.” – Marcia Laycock

“But what appeared to be a defeat was actually the greatest victory of all. In his death, Jesus defeated sin. On Easter morning, death too was defeated.” – Eugene H. Peterson

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“Once more to new creation Awake, and death gainsay, For death is swallowed up of life, And Christ is risen today!” – George Newell Lovejoy

“The Easter earthquake invites us into a new creation: a creation . . . In this new creation, the tomb does not signal the end of Jesus’ story but the beginning of the reign of his love, grace, justice, and peace.” – James A. Harnish

“Easter is very important to me. It’s a second chance.” – Reba McEntire

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“The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.” – Robert Flatt

“Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.” – Floyd W. Tomkins

“He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“Easter is a time where we are reminded that conclusions in man’s mind are the beginnings of God’s plan.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The cross could never hold Me, my Father set me free; I live! I walk in glory! No grave had claims on me.” – Greta Zwaan

“Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.” – Janine di Giovanni

“‘Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Whereas Christmas brings the promise of peace on earth to all, within all, Easter reveals the achievement of full Christhood by the Master and reveals the way by which we can attain immortality.” – Joel S. Goldsmith

“His sacrifice is the heart of the story. But not the end of the story. The Lord’s resurrection is the most glorious, victorious moment in history.” – Liz Curtis Higgs

“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. Hall

“But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.” – Walter Raleigh

“But from this earth, this grave, this dust, my God shall raise me up, I trust.” – Walter Raleigh

“Easter is the holiest day of the year for Christians. It is a time for family gatherings to celebrate their faith as well as the beginning of Spring.” – Laura Sommers

“It’s impossible to reflect upon Easter and all of its hardships without letting it reflect in and through us.” – Stacy Voss

“The resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

“The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.” – Kate McGahan

“Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.” – By S.D. Gordon

“For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born.” – Alice Freeman Palmer

“It’s not about the bunny; it’s about the lamb.” – Unknown

“Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all of your eggs in one basket.” – Evan Esar

“The resurrection of Jesus is the most amazing miracle of all time. It is well documented that not only one person saw Him but hundreds.” – Catherine Pulsifer

“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.” – C. S. Lewis

“We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ’s sufferings!” – A.W. Tozer

“Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.” – James Howell

“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 Brooks

“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.” – By Pope John Paul II

“We can celebrate today because of what Jesus has accomplished. Let us never forget that our salvation came at such a high cost. Thankfully, one which was paid by our Savior.” – David Ramos

“After Your Son lay three days in a dark hole, you turned the darkest Friday into the brightest Sunday.” – Max Lucado

“By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!” – Frederic William Farrar

“It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father’s will… it was his love for sinners like me.” – D.A. Carson

“To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” – Bernhard Langer

“He knows the way because He is the way.” – Jeffrey R Holland

“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” – Martin Luther

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu

“The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.” – Carl Knudsen

“I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.” – William P. Young

“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. Hume

“On Easter Day, the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.” – Douglas Horton

“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.” – Saint John of Damascus

“All of heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, hell afraid of it, while men are the only ones to ignore its meaning.” – Oswald Chambers

“The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive, it is so much more. The message of Easter is that Jesus has risen!” – Colin S. Smith

“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