1st EPAL ALMYROU

“Easter was when hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present”

N.T. Wright

“Easter spells out

beauty, the rare

beauty of new life.“

S.D. Gordon

"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song." 

Pope John Paul II

"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."

Mahatma Gandhi

"On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer." --

Douglas Horton

"The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice." 

Henry Knox Sherrill

“ 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, Confessions

"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"

“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

"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

"For I remember it is Easter morn,

/ And life and love and peace are all new born."

Alice Freeman Palmer

"a stone at dawn / cold water in the

basin/ these walls' rough

plaster / imageless..."

Amy Clampitt, Easter Morning

"I think of the garden after the rain;

/ And hope to my heart comes singing,

/ 'At morn the cherry-blooms will be white,

/ And the Easter bells be ringing!'"

Edna Dean Proctor, "Easter Bells"

"To the cold, dark grave they go

/ Silently and sad and slow,

/ From the light of happy skies

/ And the glance of mortal eyes."

Paul Laurence Dunbar, An Easter Ode

“Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood."

Wallace Stevens

“Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring –time”

Martin Luther

King

"The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise."

Carl Knudsen

"The great gift of

Easter is hope..." Basil C. Hume

"If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. Forever Easter."

David Housholder, The Blackberry Bush

"O the Easter bells are gladly ringing,

/ Let the whole world join the happy lay,

/ Let the hills and vales break forth in singing, / Christ, the Lord of Life, is ris'n today."

Lizzie Akers, "Easter Bells"