Jerusalem Obituary, 33 A.D.

Easter is never deserved. - Jan Karon

Dear Jesus, do something. - Vladimir Nabokov

The great gift of Easter is hope. - Basil C Hume

Jesus was a hiker. The wilderness was His retreat. - Toni Sorenson

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter. - Gordon B. Hinckley

Our hope is as certain as Jesus's grave is empty. - Sam Allberry

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. - S D Gordon

Jesus was a Jew, yes, but only on his mother's side. - Archie Bunker

Jesus on Twitter would have been a pretty amazing thing. - Mark Batterson

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance. - Reba McEntire

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter. - Benjamin Franklin

I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs. - Simon Kinberg

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. - Janine di Giovanni

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

Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. - Clarence W Hall

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday. - Fulton J Sheen

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles. - Queen Elizabeth I

The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies. - Kate McGahan

For I remember it is Easter morn, and life and love and peace are all new born. - Alice F Palmer

If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses. - Mark Batterson

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper. - Amy Sedaris

The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise. - Carl Knudsen

Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless. - Charles M Crowe

There would be no sense in saying you trusted Jesus if you would not take his advice. - C S Lewis

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. - Robert H. Schuller

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. - Pope John Paul II

When you carry the cross of Jesus, you will find that the cross will wind up carrying you. - Unknown

Easter is the only time when it's perfectly safe to put all of your eggs in one basket. - Evan Esar

Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life. - Craig D Loundsbrough

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter. - Josh McDowell

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music. - Carlos Santana

I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction. - Mark Twain

Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches awaiting Easter. - Fran Lebowitz

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. - Bernhard Langer

When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person. - Ravi Zacharias

It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples. - Martin Hengel

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did. - Malcolm Muggeridge

It was inevitable that Jesus Christ should be crucified. It was also inevitable that He should rise again. - H R L Sheppard

I've come to view Jesus much the way I view Elvis. I love the guy but the fan clubs really freak me out. - John Fugelsang

Practice mercy and forgiveness throughout as a lesson that symbolizes the love shown through his crucifixion. - Unarine Ramaru

Treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. - Dwight L Moody

It cost God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost him crucifixion. - C S Lewis

My mother reads the obituary page every day, but she could never understand how people always die in alphabetical order. - Frank Carson

The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we've surrounded ourselves with. - Siobhan Shaw

Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. - I Thessalonians 5:16-18

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra

It goes back to Christianity's affiliation with Judaism as Passover. Easter is as important to Christians as Passover is to the Jews. - Glenn Duffy

Discipleship does not come from positions of prominence, wealth, or advanced learning. The disciples of Jesus came from all walks of life. - James E Faust

Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!' - Conan O'Brien

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. - Marvin Olasky

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 - Rick Warren

Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone. - Ravi Zacharias