71 Easter Quotes That Inspire Hope, Renewal, and Joy

Easter is right around the corner, and with that comes the influx of Easter candy commercials.

But Easter is so much more than just chocolate bunnies and Easter egg hunts, it is the day when Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Christ. In addition to being a religious observation,  the holiday also represents rebirth and change. The flowers are starting to bloom, the weather gets warmer, and darkness falls on the days at a later time. So it is of no coincidence that this special occasion takes place in the spring, the season of renewal.

To commemorate the Easter holiday, here are some quotes that encourage hope, promise renewal, and bring you joy, From biblical verses to something a little more light-hearted, there is something for everyone on this list.

 

71 Easter Quotes That Inspire Renewal, Hope, and Joy

Easter Quotes About Renewal and Transition (1-14)

1. “ Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope renewal and new life.”- Janine Di Giovanni

2. “The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with.” –Siobhan Shan

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

4. “ Easter is very important to me. It is a second chance.” -Reba McEntire

5. “ A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures” –James E. Faust

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

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

1. “ We ask that the streams of Easter light might flow into the intimacy and privacy of our hearts this morning, to heal us and encourage us and enable us to make again a new beginning.”- John O’ Donohue

9.  “ Easter is a time that family and friends get together. Some for religious purposes and some to celebrate the arrival of Spring. Either way, it is a celebration of renewal and typically finds people with a positive outlook.” –Jean LeGrand

10.  “ Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is.” –Jessica Harrelson

11.  “Easter is the miracle of transformation as seen in the change of seasons, in the maturation of mortal persons, and in the resurrection of souls.”- Richelle E. Goodrich

12.  “The message of Easter is that God’s new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you’re now invited to belong in it.”- N.T. Wright

1. “Spring brings new growth. Weed out the bad and make new for something beautiful.”-Unknown

2. “ Every ending will meet its own end, for every ending is destined to be swallowed up by a beginning.” –Craig D. Lounsburg 

Easter Quotes About Faith and Hope (15-28)

15. “The great gift of Easter is hope.” – Basil C. Hume

1. “ To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow”- Audrey Hepburn

2. “This week, whatever you may be facing, remember that in three short days, the disciples and the family of Christ went from hopelessness to hopeful-from devastation to celebration, from defeat to victory! Because of the cross and the tomb, you have a hope in Christ!” –Sheri Easter

18.  “ Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” –Lady Bird Johnson

1. “Once you choose hope, anything is possible.” –Christopher Reeves

2. “ 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.” – Reverend T.D. Jakes

3. “By grace, we are saved through faith.” – Kevin DeYoung

4. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

6. “It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow” –Robert H. Goddard

25.  “ Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.” –N.T Wright

1. “ Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy.” –Dwight l. Moody

2. “The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created spring.” –Bernard Williams

3. “ Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.”- Virgil A. Kraft

 

Easter Biblical Verses (29-37)

1. “Blessed are those who have not seen and have yet believed.”- John 20:29

2. “ He is not here; he has risen.” Luke 24:6-7

31.  “ I am the resurrection and the life.”- John 11:25

1. “In his great mercy, he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” – 1 Peter 1:3

2. “ For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.” 1 Corinthians 15:21

3. “ And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.” 1 Corinthians 6:14

4. “ Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him” –Acts 3:15

36.  “The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus; it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing.”- Isaiah 35:1

1. “This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it” –Psalm 118:24

 

Easter Quotes About The Resurrection (38-53)

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

39 “ The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. he came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose in living and a home in Heaven.” – Rick Warren

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

2. “Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it.”-  Michael Leunig

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

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

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

6. “ We have equated an end with ‘termination’ when in fact an end is the beginning of ‘germination’- Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

8. “ Our old history ends with this cross; our new history begins with our resurrection.” –Watchman Nee

9. “ Easter says you can put the truth in a grave, but it will not stay there.” –Clarence W. Hall

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

11. “Here is the amazing thing about Easter, the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.” –Reverend T.D. Jakes

51.  “Jesus gave us spring as a reminder of how beautiful life can be after death.” –Unknown

1. “ The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.” Deepak Chopra, M.D.

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

 

Easter Quotes About Spirituality and Self-Reflection (54-63)

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

55.  “As we think of the upcoming rebirth of spring, perhaps we can consider that just as the daffodil and tulip bulbs buried in the ground all winter require good soil, water, and sunshine to burst forth, and brighten our spring days, so, too, fasting, almsgiving and prayer are necessary ingredients to nurture our spiritual growth on our Lenten journey to Easter.” –Donna Marie Cooper O’Boyle.

1. “ The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.” –Victor Hugo

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

3. “Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert, he underwent the struggle between good and evil.”- Bernhard Langer

4. “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

5. “If pondering Jesus’s crucifixion doesn’t make you uncomfortable, you probably aren’t doing it right.” –Matthew Skinner

6. “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

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

8. “ Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers; plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” –Luther Burbank

Lighthearted Easter Quotes (64-71)

1. “Two thousand years ago Jesus was crucified, three days later he walks out of a cave and they celebrate with chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps and beautifully decorated eggs. I guess these were things Jesus loved as a child.” –Billy Crystal

2. “Bunnies are cuddly, large, and small. But I like the chocolate ones best of all.” Unknown

3. “My mother used to say that Greek Easter was later because you get stuff cheaper.”-Amy Sedaris

4. “ Fact: Easter egg hunts prove that your child can find things when they want to!”- Unknown

5. “A true friend is someone who thinks you are a good egg even though he knows you are slightly cracked.” Bernard Meltzer

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

7. “I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and true love. Don’t even try to tell me different.” –Dolly Parton

8. “Spring is nature’s way of saying ‘Let’s Party!’”-Robin Williams

 

What are your favorite Easter quotes? I would love to hear about them in the comments.

Happy Easter!

Thanks for reading.

Yours Truly,

Tracy

 

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