Quotes & Sayings About Easter And Good Friday

I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out. — Jami Floyd

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding. — Jonathan Swift

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

The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation. — Charles Spurgeon

Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

There was something about the past - the reassurance that others had lived and loved and survived before me gave me something to cling to in the present. — Karen White

If there were no illusions, there would bo no disillusionment. But then one would have no fond memories either, with which fortify oneself against the pain of the reality. — Mary Balogh

Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith. — W. H. Auden

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday. — Fulton J. Sheen

The season of Lent is puzzling to many. Denying ourselves our favorite treats or habits - even for a short time - seems archaic in our I-want-it-now culture. Lent is a plodding, definitive crescendo that leads up to the cacophonous noise of Good Friday and the gorgeous aria of Easter. It's a season marked by deliberateness and intentionality. — Anonymous

Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution. — Eduardo Paes

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle. — Mason Cooley

I have my work cut out for me where you're concerned, don't I? (Stryker)
Not really. Hate you today. Will hate you tomorrow. What say we don't waste any time? Give me the sword and let me have your throat now. (Zephyra) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be held there, God is able to bring healing to us ans new possibilities to our lives. That is, of course, what Good Friday and Easter are all about — N. T. Wright

N]either antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe. — Frederick The Great

The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave. — Bill Murray

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who. — Chetan Bhagat

We're Easter people, living in a Good Friday world. — Anne Lamott

You know, once you start calculating you shit yourself up before you know it. — Pedro G. Ferreira

When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes. — Coretta Scott King

He tries not to think about The Core ... but he couldn't deny it ... they were all becoming something else entirely. Darwin's Children — Natasha Larry

But the Easter sacrifice in their own homes - well, think it over. I used to think the same as you, and I still hate to see the lambs and calves going home to their deaths on Good Friday. But isn't it a million times better than the way we do it at home, however 'humane' we try to be? Here, the lamb's petted, unsuspicious, happy - you see it trotting along with the children like a little dog. Till the knife's in its throat, it has no idea it's going to die. Isn't that better than those dreadful lorries at home, packed full of animals, lumbering on Mondays and Thursdays to the slaughterhouses, where, be as humane as you like, they can smell the blood and the fear, and have to wait their turn in a place just reeking of death? — Mary Stewart

If life is a game... I need new dice! — Jay Little

I am wholly deserving of all the consequences that I will in fact never receive simply because God unashamedly stepped in front of me on the cross, unflinchingly spread His arms so as to completely shield me from the retribution that was mine to bear, and repeatedly took the blows. And I stand entirely unwounded, utterly lost in the fact that the while His body was pummeled and bloodied to death by that which was meant for me and me alone, I have not a scratch. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter. — Marianne Williamson

Crucified Love lives with us today and till the end of times as He promised.Amen.The beauty of the cross and our crucified Lord cannot be fathomed by human mind or by barely reading scriptures in bits, but by careful reading of entire scripture in the spirit which will in turn engulf one with wisdom and love. — Henrietta Newton Martin

The objective is not to "make your links appear natural"; the objective is that your links are natural. — Matt Cutts