Easter : The Worst And The Best Of Times

If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise!

-Clarence W. Hall

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Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.

-Charles M. Crowe

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Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.

-Charles M. Crowe

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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

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Earth’s saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!

-Susan Coolidge

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The cross of Christ shows us that God’s love is of deepest descent…universal distribution and of eternal duration.

-Dr. Fred Barlow

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Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.

-Albert Laighton

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Christianity begins where religion ends…with the resurrection.

-Herbert Booth Smith

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