“Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.”
Easter carries layers of meaning — renewal, faith, spring, and the idea that endings can also be beginnings. These quotes reflect on resurrection, hope, and the return of warmth after a long winter.
“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.”
“Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.”
“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.”
“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.”
“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.”
“Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.”
“We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.”