Easter Quotes Perfect for Handmade Cards

Easter is Christianity's most important holiday celebrating Jesus' resurrection from the dead. Easter is one of the most attended church days of the year (Christmas being the other one) and is celebrated by Christians throughout the world.

Here are some of the best quotes about Easter:

The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise. ~Carl Knudsen

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here. ~St Augustine

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. ~Martin Luther

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

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Angels, roll the rock away;
Death, yield up thy mighty prey:
See, He rises from the tomb,
Glowing with immortal bloom. ~Thomas Scott, "Easter Angels"

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

On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. ~Douglas Horton

He who wants Lent to seem short should contract a debt to be repaid at Easter ~Italian Proverb

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