Easter Inspiration Quotes: A Heartwarming Collection to Uplift Your Spirit

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

- John 3:16

"He is not here; he has risen, just as he said."

- Matthew 28:6

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

- Bernhard Langer

"Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life."

- Janine di Giovanni

"If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you."

- Romans 8:11

"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."

- Charles Stanley

"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."

- Ezra Taft Benson

"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.'"

- Phillips Brooks

"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."

- Charles Stanley

"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."

- Ravi Zacharias

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead."

- 1 Peter 1:3

"Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present."

- N.T. Wright

"Let everything you do be done in love."

- 1 Corinthians 16:14

"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."

- Basil Hume

"Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life…’"

- John 11:25

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

- Pope John Paul II

"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."

- T. D. Jakes

"Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness."

- Floyd W. Tomkins

"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."

- Martin Luther

"The great gift of Easter is hope."

- Basil Hume

"Let your light shine before others."

- Matthew 5:16

"When you wonder how much pain you can endure well, remember Him. He suffered what you suffer so that He would know how to lift you up. He may not remove the burden, but He will give you strength, comfort, and hope. He knows the way. He drank the bitter cup. He endured the suffering of all"

- Henry B. Eyring

"Challenging times come in this mortal world, including to the faithful, but the reassuring message of Christ is that although He, the paschal lamb, would go like ‘a sheep before [its] shearers’, He would nevertheless rise, as the psalmist said, to be ‘our refuge and strength, [our] very present help in [times of] trouble’"

- Jeffrey R. Holland

"In every land and age, He has said to us all, ‘If any man [or woman] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me’. This speaks of the crosses we bear rather than the ones we wear. To be a follower of Jesus Christ, one must sometimes carry a burden—your own or someone else’s—and go where sacrifice is required and suffering is inevitable. A true Christian cannot follow the Master only in those matters with which he or she agrees. No. We follow Him everywhere, including, if necessary, into arenas filled with tears and trouble, where sometimes we may stand very much alone"

- Jeffrey R. Holland

"My beloved brothers and sisters, I testify that the most important day in the history of mankind was the day when Jesus Christ, the living Son of God, won the victory over death and sin for all of God’s children. And the most important day in your life and mine is the day when we learn to ‘behold the man’; when we see Him for who He truly is; when we partake with all our heart and mind of His atoning power; when with renewed enthusiasm and strength, we commit to follow Him"

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"We begin to abide in the Lord by exercising our moral agency to take upon ourselves His yoke through the covenants and ordinances of the restored gospel. The covenant connection we have with our Heavenly Father and His resurrected and living Son is the supernal source of perspective, hope, power, peace, and enduring joy; it also is the rock-solid foundation upon which we should build our lives"

- David A. Bednar

"Because of the Savior’s Atonement, mercy can prevail for those who have repented, and it can allow them to return to the presence of God. We would do well to ponder this wonderful doctrine. None can return to God by his or her own good works alone; we all need the benefit of the Savior’s sacrifice. All have sinned, and it is only through the Atonement of Jesus Christ that we can obtain mercy and live with God"

- Quentin L. Cook

"We see the role of death in our Heavenly Father’s plan, but that plan would become void without some way to overcome death in the end, both physical and spiritual. Thus, a Redeemer, the Only Begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ, suffered and died to atone for Adam and Eve’s transgression, thereby providing resurrection and immortality for all. And since none of us will have been perfectly and consistently obedient to the gospel law, His Atonement also redeems us from our own sins on condition of repentance. With the Savior’s atoning grace providing forgiveness of sins and sanctification of the soul, we can spiritually be born again and reconciled to God"

- D. Todd Christofferson

"By focusing our attention on Jesus Christ, all else around us—while still present—is viewed through our love for Him. Less important distractions fade, and we remove those things that are not in keeping with His light and character. As you continue to attentively catch hold of this thought of Jesus Christ, trust in Him, and keep His commandments, I promise you not only heavenly guidance but heavenly power—power that brings strength to your covenants, peace to your difficulties, and joy to your blessings"

- Neil L. Andersen

"Palm Sunday marked the beginning of the last week of the mortal ministry of Jesus Christ. It was the most important week in human history. What began with the heralding of Jesus as the promised Messiah in His triumphant entry into Jerusalem closed with His Crucifixion and Resurrection. By divine design, His atoning sacrifice concluded His mortal ministry, making it possible for us to live with our Heavenly Father for eternity"

- Ronald A. Rasband

"We as Latter-day Saints are endowed with a most remarkable Easter gift! A gift of unique witness, another testament of the Easter miracle that contains perhaps the most magnificent Easter scriptures in all of Christianity. I am referring of course to the Book of Mormon and, more specifically, to the account of Jesus Christ appearing to inhabitants in the New World in His resurrected glory"

- Gary E. Stevenson

"[Jesus Christ] is our mark. If we incorrectly imagine that there is a need for something beyond what He offers, we deny or diminish the scope and power He can have in our lives. He has claimed the rights of mercy and extends that mercy to us. He is the ultimate ‘source [to whom we should] look for a remission of [our] sins’. He is our Advocate with the Father and champions what the Father has wanted all along: for us to return to Him as inheritors in His kingdom"

- Dale G. Renlund

"We are less alone when we realize we are not alone. Our Savior always understands. With our Savior’s help, we can surrender our pride, our hurts, our sins to God. However we may feel as we begin, we become more whole as we trust Him to make our relationships whole"

- Gerrit W. Gong

"Everything worthy and eternal is centered in the living reality of God, our loving Eternal Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ, and His Atonement, witnessed by the Holy Ghost. I reverently witness and solemnly testify of the living Christ—He who ‘died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven’. He is Alpha and Omega—with us in the beginning, He is with us to the end"

- Gerrit W. Gong

"I can assure you that Christ is ever aware of the adversities we experience in mortality. He understands all of the bitterness, agony, and physical pain as well as the emotional and spiritual challenges we face. The Savior’s bowels are filled with mercy, and He is always ready to succor us. This is possible because He personally experienced and took upon Himself in the flesh the pain of our weakness and infirmities"

- Ulisses Soares

"If you are prone to worry that you will never measure up, or that the loving reach of Christ’s infinite Atonement mercifully covers everyone else but not you, then you misunderstand. Infinite means infinite. Infinite covers you and those you love"

- Patrick Kearon

"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."

- Bono

"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."

- Daniel Morgan

"Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter."

- Josh McDowell

"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."

- William Tyndale

"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."

- Frederica Mathewes-Green

"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."

- Keith O'Brien

"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."

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

"Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

- John 20:29

"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."

- Josh McDowell

"Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal and new life."

- Janine di Giovanni

"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."

- Basil Hume

"We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore."

- Joel Osteen

"I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration."

- William P. Young

"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

"Easter opened up a crack in a universe winding down toward entropy and decay, sealing the promise that someday God will enlarge the miracle of Easter to cosmic scale."

- Philip Yancey

"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."

- Dwight L. Moody

"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."

- Michael Leunig

"There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"Go quickly, and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead."

- Matthew 28:7

"Jesus answered him, truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise."

- Luke 23:43

"If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."

- Romans 10:9

"I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me."

- Galatians 2:20

"They say that oft at Easter dawn When all the world is fair, God’s angels out of heaven are drawn To list the music there."

- Edna Dean Proctor

"That He should extend His great love unto such as I Sufficient to own, to redeem, and to justify Oh, it is wonderful that He should care for me Enough to die for me"

- Charles H. Gabriel

"When Jesus says yes, nobody can say no."

- Michelle Williams

"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

"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

"Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life."

- S.D. Gordon

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

- Kate McGahan

"We are an Easter People and Alleluia is our song!"

- Pope John Paul II

"There in the ground His body lay, Light of the world by darkness slain, Then bursting forth in glorious Day, Up from the grave He rose again"

- Keith Getty & Stuart Townsend, “In Christ Alone”

"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."

- Walter Martin

"Unless there is Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday."

- Fulton J. Sheen

"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."

- Bede Griffiths

"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."

- William Barclay

"A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures."

- James E. Faust

"The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection."

- Kenneth Scott Latourette

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

- Charles M. Crowe

"Christ the Lord is risen today, sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; sing, ye heavens and earth reply."

- Charles Wesley

"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."

- Charles Stanley

"Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."

- Martin Luther

"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."

- Michael Leunig

"We ask that streams of Easter light might flow into the intimacy and privacy of our hearts this morning, to heal us and encourage us and enable us to make again a new beginning."

- John O'Donohue

"Like Easter egg hunts, the disciples knew what it was like to be in search for Jesus."

- Seth Vopat

"Easter is the soul’s first taste of spring."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as as the survival of the soul."

- Victor Hugo

"Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance."

- Reba McEntire

"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."

- E. Stanley Jones

"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."

- Frederica Mathewes-Green

"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."

- Robert South

"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."

- Michael Leunig

"People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind."

- Joel Osteen

"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."

- Louie Schwartzberg

"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."

- Jane Elliot

"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."

- Dwight L. Moody

"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!"

- Camila Alves

"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."

- Roma Downey

"It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls."

- Katharine Lee Bates

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

- Charles M. Crowe

"'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love."

- Olivia De Havilland

"Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption."

- Trey Parker

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

- Albert Lighton

"Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world."

- Virgil A. Kraft

"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child."

- L. Frank Baum

"If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise."

- Jeannette Walls

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

- Pablo Neruda

"Where flowers bloom, so does hope."

- Lady Bird Johnson

"Spring buds burst to bloom, and the river carries their song of life."

- Jayita Bhattacharjee

"Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know."

- L.M. Montgomery

"Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is."

- Jessica Harrelson

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."

- Bernard Meltzer

"The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with."

- Siobhan Shaw

"For I remember it is Easter morn, / And life and love and peace are all newborn, / And joy has triumphed over loss and pain."

- Alice Freeman Palmer

"Easter is very important to me. It’s a second chance."

- Reba McEntire

"Easter. The joy of candy, colors, creativity and costuming. A season unlike any other."

- Grant Morrison

"Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was."

- Aberjhani

"Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life."

- Gertrude Stein

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."

- Audrey Hepburn

"‘Is the spring coming?’ he said. ‘What is it like?’ … ‘It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth.’"

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

"That is one good thing about this world … there are always sure to be more springs."

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

- Henri Matisse

"What do the dear little flowers say? Listen, while slowly they bend and sway, Bowing their heads in a reverent way, This Easter day."

- Lizzie DeArmond

"Always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves."

- E.E. Cummings

"Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. Is life ever so sweet and beautiful as when it comes up fresh in the spring?"

- S.D. Gordon

"I am going to try and pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes, and listen."

- Anne Lamott

"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair ... "

- Susan Polis Schutz

"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."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

- Anne Frank

"'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."

- Annie Besant

"My sun sets to rise again."

- Robert Browning

"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."

- Margaret Atwood

"I must have flowers, always and always."

- Claude Monet

"Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring."

- Lilly Pulitzer

"The deep roots never doubt that spring will come."

- Marty Rubin

"I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different."

- Dolly Parton

"I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little bunny, isn't it?"

- Tim

"I'll tell you one thing, Doc, he weren't no rabbit."

- Bugs Bunny

"Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all your eggs in one basket."

- Evan Esar

"Good idea: finding the Easter eggs on Easter. Bad idea: finding the Easter eggs on Christmas."

- Jack Handey

"I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and true love. Don’t even try to tell me different."

- Dolly Parton

"Even the smallest one can change the world,"

- Peter Rabbit

"Here’s for me the one big question: How do you get Crucifixion, Resurrection and then chocolate bunnies, colored eggs? How do you do that one? Even kids are going, ‘Rabbits don’t lay eggs. What is this?’"

- Robin Williams

"Oh, carrots are divine, you get a dozen for a dime, it's maaaa-gic!"

- Bugs Bunny

"As for me, I will follow the path of the pink bunnies."

- Magenta Periwinkle

"Bloom where you are planted."