Easter is here (or at least soon, depending on when you read this).
It’s a time for spending quality time with family and friends while having wonderful meals, going egg hunting and reflecting upon the themes of hope, rebirth and new possibilities opening up in the warming spring sunshine.
So to help you to make this a happy holiday I’d like to share 101 positive, funny, religious and inspirational quotes.
I hope this collection of timeless thoughts will help you and your loved ones to have a wonderful Easter no matter if you use one or a few of these quotes in a text, on social media or at the holiday dinner table.
Inspirational Easter Quotes and Sayings
“The great gift of Easter is hope.”
– Basil C. Hume
“For I remember Easter morn, and life and love and peace are all new born.”
– Alice Freeman Palmer
“Easter is the one morning in all of history where the dawn came twice; once on the eastern horizon and again in eternity.”
– Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Easter teaches us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.”
– Charles M. Crowe
“The season of Easter is an invitation to embrace the renewal of life and the promise of brighter days.”
– Byron Pulsifer
“Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.”
– N.T. Wright
“The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with.”
– Siobhan Shaw
“Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal and new life.”
– Janine di Giovanni
“Easter is very important to me. It’s a second chance.”
– Reba McEntire
“Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.”
– Clarence W. Hall
“The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.”
– Kate McGahan
“Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.”
– S.D. Gordon
“Easter is a time to rejoice, be thankful, be assured that all is forgiven so life extends beyond the soil of earth.”
– Byron Pulsifer
“A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.”
– James E. Faust
“Easter is a time to come together and reflect on the blessings we have, it’s a celebration of perseverance and triumph.”
– Roma Downey
“The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.”
– Carl Knudsen
“Easter is a time of reflection and joy. When we emerge from our cocoon of doubt to fly freely on the wings of faith.”
– Floyd W. Tomkins
“Easter is never deserved.”
– Jan Kanron
“Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.”
– Victor Hugo
“Take a little time this Easter to think about how you too can renew yourself in a positive way that will serve others.”
– Unknown
“On Easter Day, the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.”
– Douglas Horton
Happy Easter Quotes for Family, Kids and Friends
“That is one good thing about this world; there are always sure to be more springs.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“You’ll wake up on Easter morning, And you’ll know that he was there, When you find those chocolate bunnies, That he’s hiding everywhere.”
– Gene Autry
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
– Anne Frank
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…”
– Susan Polis Schutz
“If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.”
– Jeannette Walls
“Easter is love. Easter is the love of Christ and God our Father. Easter is the time to show love to all those who mean the most.”
– Byron Pulsifer
“Where flowers bloom so does hope.”
– Lady Bird Johnson
“‘Twas Easter Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is.”
– Jessica Harrelson
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
– Henri Matisse
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”
– William Shakespeare
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“I must have flowers, always and always.”
– Claude Monet
“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
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
– Margaret Atwood
“Blossom by blossom the spring begins.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”
– e.e. Cummings
“Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.”
– Gertrude Stein
Religious Easter Quotes from the Bible and Other Sources
“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
– Saint Augustine
“Look at the cross and you will know what one soul means to Jesus.”
– Mother Teresa
“Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“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
“The resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.”
– Joseph B. Wirthlin
“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
“He is not here; for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”
– Matthew 28:6
“I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live.”
– John 11:25
“And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.”
– Luke 24:2-3
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”
– 1 Peter 1:3
“For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection.”
– Romans 6:5
“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.”
– Martin Luther
“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
“Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.”
– John of Damascus
“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
– Pope John Paul II
“For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.”
– 1 Corinthians 15:21
“Unless there is Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.”
– Fulton J. Sheen
“We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence.”
– Pope Francis
“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
“I believe in Christ like I believe in the sun – not because I can see it, but by it, I can see everything else.”
– C.S. Lewis
Funny Easter Quotes
“I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don’t even try to tell me different.”
– Dolly Parton
“Egg hunts are proof that your children can find things when they really want to.”
– Unknown
“A true friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg, even if you’re cracked.”
– Bernard Meltzer
“Good idea: finding the Easter eggs on Easter. Bad idea: finding the Easter eggs on Christmas.”
– Jack Handey
“They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don’t find the eggs, they get booed.”
– Bob Uecker
“It’s Easter, and they already have the Christmas decorations up.”
– Sally (from Charlie Brown)
“Don’t wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.”
– Shana Alexander
“I just need somebunny to love.”
– Unknown
“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe filled with slush.”
– Doug Larson
“Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all your eggs in one basket.”
– Evan Esar
“The Easter Bunny ate all of the carrots that we left for him. What a pig.”
– Steve Carell
“All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt!”
– Charles M. Schulz
“You know what I’m doing for Easter? I’m gonna be hanging with my Peeps.”
– Jay Leno
“Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.”
– Amy Sedaris
“Everybunny needs somebunny sometimes.”
– Unknown
“I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had three eggs… but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.”
– Caroline Rhea
“Easter is a time for dressing up, looking your best, and hunting for candy. It’s Halloween in reverse!”
– Melanie White
“You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by the way he eats jelly beans.”
– Ronald Reagan
“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.”
– Lilly Pulitzer
“Hoppy Easter!”
– Unknown
Short Easter Quotes on Spring and Renewal
“Bloom where you are planted.”
– Saint Francis de Sales
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
– Hal Borland
“Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.”
– Aberjhani
“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.”
– Anita Krizzan
“My sun sets to rise again.”
– Robert Browning
“Earth laughs in flowers.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.”
– Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the mind.”
– Luther Burbank
“In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.”
– Okakura Kakuz?
“Nothing is so beautiful as Spring.”
– Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”
– Robert H. Schuller
“Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.”
– Victor Kraft
“The deep roots never doubt spring will come.”
– Marty Rubin
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
– Pablo Neruda
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
– Lao Tzu
“Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.”
– Albert Lighton
“The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day He created spring.”
– Bernard Williams
“Even the smallest one can change the world.”
– Peter Rabbit
Want more uplifting inspiration for your spring? Then have a look at the positive spring quotes in this post, the short spring quotes here and these uplifting April quotes. Plus, this one with plenty of May quotes.