Released: April 3, 2009
Boone, NC
Easter signifies the highest holy day within the Christian Church. The story tells of the days of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. People have often wondered about how the date of Easter is determined each year. Well, I have the answer for your curious minds. Easter's date each year is determined by the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring. So, let's celebrate spring and the Easter feast of new life with these 12 Easter quotes.
1. "Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals." ~Charles M. Crowe
2. "Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. " ~Pope John Paul II
3. "Awake, thou wintry earth-- Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers; laugh forth your ancient gladness! Christ is risen." ~Thomas Blackburn
4. "'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy." ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
5. "The fasts are done; the Aves said; the moon has filled her horn and in the solemn night I watch Before the Easter morn. So pure, so still the starry heaven, so hushed the brooding air, I could hear the sweep of an angel's wings if one should earthward fare." ~Edna Dean Procter
6. "Spring bursts to-day, For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play." ~Christina G. Rossetti
7. "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." ~Bishop Robert South
8. "For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born." ~Alice Freeman Palmer
9. "Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time." ~Martin Luther
10. "Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!" ~Susan Coolridge
11. "Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness." ~Floyd W. Tomkins
12. "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
Coincidentally, Easter weekend is the same weekend as the pagan feast of fertility and the Jewish feast of Passover. All in all, they are celebrations of life. So Happy Easter and hope these 12 quotes about Easter put a spring in your step.
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Noel Jameson
Boone, NC
Phone : 815.642.0460
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