If spring is the season for renewal and new hopes, then Easter is the epicenter of all that! After all, it is the most beautiful springtime festivity, gathering families together and inspiring good deeds. So, if you wish to send an Easter wish to someone dear to you or reflect on the festivity in your own means, why not check out these beautiful Easter quotes that we’ve rounded up here?
Some of these spiritual quotes will reminisce about some of the Bible verses or Easter prayers, but if you are not religious, try to read those moving quotes between the lines - they do speak volumes. However, not all of our quotes are dedicated to the religious aspects of Easter - there are also quite a few happy quotes celebrating hope and renewal, bunnies and eggs, chicks and spring! So, truly an Easter quote for each and every one of us! Besides, what better way to commemorate this festivity if not by reading about it and sharing the beautiful quotes that you’ve found with your loved ones?
So, let’s just scroll down below and check out our pick of happy Easter quotes, shall we? Once you are there, vote for the inspiring quotes you think should appear on the top of our list, and share this article with your friends and those near and dear to you!
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“Egg hunts are proof that your children can find things when they really want to.”
“The Easter bunny ate all of the carrots we left for him. What a pig.” — Steve Carell
Is Bugs Bunny where the whole carrot thing started? Rabbits aren't actually supposed to eat carrots. You may as well feed them Legos for all its gonna do to their digestive track.
“Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all your eggs in one basket.” – Evan Esar
"Two thousand years ago Jesus is 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
“That is one good thing about this world, there are always sure to be more springs.” — L.M. Montgomery
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” – Margaret Atwood
“A guy comes down to earth, takes your sins, dies, and comes back three days later. You believe in him and go to heaven forever. How do you get from that to hide-the-eggs? Did Jesus have a problem with eggs? Did he go, ‘when I come back, if I see any eggs, the whole salvation thing is off?’“ — Jon Stewart
"My favorite holiday is Easter. For those who do not know what this holiday is about; it is the day we celebrate Jesus rising from the grave and coming back to Earth as a rabbit that hides colored eggs." – Adam Ferrara
“We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence.” — Pope Francis
"I was over in Australia during Easter, which was really interesting. You know, they celebrate Easter the exact same way we do, commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus by telling our children that a giant bunny rabbit… left chocolate eggs in the night." — Bill Hicks
Well actually now we use our native Bilby instead of a bunny in an effort to raise awareness of the Bilby as it endangered
“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in the books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” – Martin Luther
“My mom asked me what I’m doing at Easter. I said the same as Jesus – going out Friday, coming back Monday.”
“The promise of spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter.” – Jen Selinsky
"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime." – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Someone must x-ray my stomach to see if the peeps I ate on Easter are still in there, intact and completely undigested. And I’m not talking about this past Easter. I’m talking about the last time I celebrated Easter, in 1962.” — Bill Maher
"Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham." — Garrison Keillor
"There are always some churchgoers whom the preacher doesn't remember from one Easter to the next." — Evan Esar
"When you’re grown up you realize that it’s not the number of Easter eggs you find that’s important, but how many are dark chocolate."
“The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with.” — Siobhan Shaw
“Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.” – Charles M. Crowe
“The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.” – Kate McGahan
“The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day He created spring.” – Bernard Williams
“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.” – Pope John Paul II
“For I remember it is Easter morn, and life and love and peace are all new born.” – Alice Freeman Palmer
“If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.” – Victor Hugo
“Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Anderson
“The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.” – Robert Flatt
“People come together with their families to celebrate Easter. What better way to celebrate than to spend a few hours going on the journey of Christ’s life.” — Roma Downey
"Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as as the survival of the soul." — Victor Hugo
“Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.” ― N.T. Wright
“My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.“ — Amy Sedaris
“In your easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you’ll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade.” — Helen Merrill
"Most people outside of America won’t get it. It’s the Easter bunny. It’s another lie and I don’t understand why we had to invent this character." — Todd Rundgren
"That first Easter must have been really awkward – the apostles had already divided up Jesus’ stuff!" – William Ader
"Every Easter, at one household or another, I find a battle begins and the conversation of how to 'properly eat' a chocolate bunny." — Hilary Farr
"No presents for Christmas? That's like Easter without high-stakes poker." — Steven Levitan
"Easter. The joy of candy, colors, creativity and costuming. A season unlike any other." — Grant Morrison
"Hippity, hoppity all through the day as the bunny watch the children during their Easter play. It is fun to hop on Easter day." - Linda D. Miller
"Happy easter! I congratulate all of you on the day of Light, Peace, Joy, the pledge of future eternal life and bliss!" — Hegumen Nikon
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” – 2 Corinthians 5:17
“It is spring again. The Earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“I am going to try and pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes, and listen.” – Anne Lamott
“‘Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16
“Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with our resurrection.” — Watchman Nee
"Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness." — Floyd W. Tomkins
“As My Love moves within your heart, spirit, mind, and will, you will learn what it is truly like to be an Easter person spiritually.“ — John Palmer
“Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.“ — Michael Leunig
“Good idea: finding the easter eggs on Easter. Bad idea: finding the easter eggs on Christmas.” — Jack Handey
“It's impossible to reflect upon Easter and all of its hardships without letting it reflect in and through us.“ — Stacy Voss
"The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It tells us that the spiritual is higher than the material; that in this universe spirit counts for more than matter." — H. P. Liddon
"Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals." — Charles M. Crowe
"Easter is the symbol of releasing our grievances towards others, as well as ourselves." — Gene Skaggs Jr.
"The only reason I still participate in Easter is that my family eggs me on." —
Melanie White
“My father was so cheap. Every Easter we’d wear the same clothes, but he’d take us to a different church.“ — A. J. Jamal
“To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” — Bernhard Langer
