| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Dwight L. Moody | We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine. | 101 |
| Frederica Mathewes-Green | Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection. | 101 |
| Jane Elliot | I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it. | 101 |
| Bernhard Langer | To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. | 101 |
| William P. Young | I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. | 101 |
| Daniel Morgan | I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter. | 101 |
| Lea DeLaria | What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary. | 101 |
| Marvin Olasky | Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. | 101 |
| Basil Hume | 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. | 101 |
| Jason Scott Lee | 'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class. | 101 |
| Louie Schwartzberg | I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man. | 102 |
| Todd Rundgren | 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. | 102 |
| Basil Hume | 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. | 102 |
| Drew Busby | When you ran out the tunnel at the old Easter Road for a derby game, you'd get a spittal right on the back of your head. They were spitting on you as you ran out, which actually helped get you going. It was some place. | 102 |
| John Guare | And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present. | 102 |
| Simon Kinberg | I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs. | 102 |
| Ethel Merman | At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since. | 103 |
| Zach Johnson | Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled; culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn't write it up any better. | 103 |
| Amy Sedaris | My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper. | 103 |
| Katharine Lee Bates | It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls. | 103 |
| Drew Houston | To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction. | 103 |
| Bede Griffiths | God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything. | 103 |
| Max von Essen | My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York, and I would see things like the 'Easter Bonnet' or 'Broadway Bares,' things I would sneak into. | 103 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation. | 104 |
| Trey Parker | Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption. | 104 |
| Walter Martin | What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour. | 104 |
| Hugh Mackay | A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn? | 104 |
| Keith O'Brien | I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life. | 104 |
| Olivia De Havilland | I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love. | 105 |
| Pico Iyer | In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore. | 105 |
| Julie Burchill | I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful. | 105 |
| Billy Graham | God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.' | 106 |
| William Barclay | Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. | 106 |
| Dennis Crowley | Between the three, Facebook is literally everyone I've ever shaken hands with at a conference or kissed on the cheek at Easter. Twitter seems to be everyone I am entertained by or I wish to meet some day. Foursquare seems to be everyone I run into on a regular basis. All three of those social graphs are powerful in their own. | 106 |
| Janine di Giovanni | Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. | 106 |
| Jennifer McMahon | Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time. | 106 |
| Kenneth Scott Latourette | The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection. | 107 |
| Leon Uris | I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves. | 107 |
| William Weld | Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that. | 107 |
| Frederica Mathewes-Green | Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness. | 108 |
| Kevin James | I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy. | 108 |
| Roma Downey | 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. | 108 |
| Bono | But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross. | 109 |
| James E. Faust | A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.  | 109 |
| Amy Sedaris | I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life. | 109 |
| Michael Leunig | It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God. | 109 |
| Reba McEntire | Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance. | 110 |
| Thomas Mallon | I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during the Nixon years. I'm assailed by all kinds of stimulating doubts, but I do believe in God. | 110 |
| William Tyndale | To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law. | 111 |
| Saint Augustine | God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. | 112 |
| Nancy Pearcey | During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas. | 112 |
| Pope John Paul II | Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. | 113 |
| Frederica Mathewes-Green | Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter. | 113 |
| T. D. Jakes | 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. | 113 |
| Denis Leary | Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us. | 114 |
| Ravi Zacharias | Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life. | 115 |
| Rick Warren | The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven. | 115 |
| Gordon B. Hinckley | There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter. | 116 |
| Kaley Cuoco | I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted. | 116 |
| Phillips Brooks | Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.' | 116 |
| E. Stanley Jones | Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. | 117 |
| Jacques Pepin | I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great. | 118 |
| Robert South | God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress. | 119 |
| Spike Milligan | The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.' | 121 |
| Josh McDowell | The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position. | 122 |
| Dwight L. Moody | A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. | 124 |
| Josh McDowell | Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter. | 124 |
| Nicolas Cage | Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. | 126 |
| Charles Stanley | The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose. | 204 |
| Annie Besant | 'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth. | 205 |
| Marc Guggenheim | Fortunately, the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you could want, that it's not that hard to find the right character. Sometimes it's nothing more than an Easter egg, or a name drop, and sometimes it's someone like 'Deathstroke,' who is a huge part of the DC Universe. | 205 |
| Charles Stanley | The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him. | 206 |
| Michael Leunig | 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. | 206 |
| Deepak Chopra | The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. | 208 |
| Charles Stanley | There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love. | 210 |
| Victoria Beckham | I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that. | 211 |
| Michael Leunig | 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. | 215 |
| Robert H. Schuller | It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. | 216 |
| Chuck Palahniuk | What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises. | 217 |
| Jay Parini | Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear. | 301 |
| Joel Osteen | People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind. | 303 |
| Joel Osteen | We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore. | 304 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. | 309 |
| Camila Alves | Easter is one of my favorite holidays with the kids. They get to run loose, and we always have our family and loved ones all around us! | 315 |
| Robert H. Schuller | I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. | 321 |
| Kate Christensen | Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts. | 407 |
| Joseph B. Wirthlin | During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection. | 415 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter. | 807 |
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