80 Easter Quotes To Inspire You This Holiday Season

Easter is almost here and that means Easter egg hunts, overindulging on chocolate, and plenty of family time. Easter may be a religious holiday where people celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, but for many, it’s a four-day weekend spent with family and friends. Whatever your beliefs or how you decided to spend the time, be it attending church or taking a quick vacation into the country, Easter is a wonderful occasion full of love and joy. One of the best ways to show this is with inspirational Easter quotes. 

These wise words of wisdom can be inspiring, thought-provoking, and in some cases, just plain funny. Easter quotes will provide sparks of conversation among friends and family. These sayings can be written on cards, used as captions for social media posts, or spoken as an Easter blessing for your loved ones. 

So spread the message of a happy Easter with these great quotes from a host of famous people from all walks of life and remember why this time spent with your friends and family is important. Best Easter wishes. 

1. “Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all your eggs in one basket.” – Evan Esar

2. “The great gift of Easter is hope.” – Basil C. Hume

3. “Unless there is Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.” – Fulton J. Sheen

4. “Easter is very important to me. It’s a second chance.” – Reba McEntire

5. “The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with.” – Siobhan Shaw

6. “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

7. “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” – Leo Tolstoy

8. “The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.” – Kate McGahan

9. “Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.” – Charles M. Crowe

10. “I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and true love. Don’t even try to tell me different.” – Dolly Parton

11. “Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is.” – Jessica Harrelson

12. “Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.” – Janine di Giovanni

13. “‘Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

14. “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

15. “Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.” – Clarence W. Hall

16. “Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” – Virgil A. Kraft

17. “Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.” – Charles M. Crowe

18. “The resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

19. “Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.” – S.D. Gordon

20. “Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.” – Floyd W. Tomkins

21. “Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.” – Victor Hugo

22. “It’s when you crack open a chocolate Easter egg, that smiles emerge.” – Anthony T. Hicks

23. “Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

24. “Look at the cross and you will know what one soul means to Jesus.” – Mother Teresa

25. “We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence.” – Pope Francis

26. “Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

27. “The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created spring.” – Bernard Williams

28. “Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.” – Soren Kierkegaard

29. “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” – William Shakespeare

30. “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

31. “They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don’t find the eggs, they get booed.” – Bob Uecker

32. “The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.” – Carl Knudsen

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

34. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda

35. “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

36. “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” – Saint Augustine

37. “For I remember it is Easter morn, and life and love and peace are all newborn.” – Alice Freeman Palmer

38. “For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.” – 1 Corinthians 15:21

39. “On Easter Day, the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.” – Douglas Horton

40. “Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.” – John of Damascus 

41. “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” – Gustav Mahler

42. “But from this earth, this grave, this dust, my God shall raise me up, I trust.” – Walter Raleigh

43. “We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.” – Joel Osteen

44. “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

45. “I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had three eggs … but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.” – Caroline Rhea

46. “We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence.” – Pope Francis

47. “The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.” – Robert Flatt

48. “They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in, they didn’t find the body of the Lord Jesus.” – Luke 24:2–3

49. “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

50. May little chicks and flowers bring into your life the joys of spring.” – Easter Greeting

51. “To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” – Bernhard Langer

52. “A true friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg, even if you’re cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer

53. “Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.” – Anita Krizzan

54. “He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins – and not only our sins but the sins of all the world.” – 1 John 2:2

55.  “Good idea: finding the Easter eggs on Easter. Bad idea: finding the Easter eggs on Christmas.” – Jack Handey

56. “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

57. “Jesus said to her ‘I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.’” – John 11:25

58. “Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe filled with slush.” – Doug Larson

59. “Is the Easter Bunny a space alien trying to trick us into implanting us with his eggs? Because I will so swear off chocolate right now.” – Thomm Quackenbush

60. “Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Anderson

61. “Spring is nature’s way of saying ‘Let’s party!’” – Robin Williams

62. “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

63. “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” – Margaret Atwood

64. “The Easter Bunny ate all of the carrots that we left for him. What a pig.” – Steve Carell

65. “Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with our resurrection.” – Watchman Nee

66. “All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt!” – Charles M. Schulz

67. “Always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.” – E.E. Cummings

68. “There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson

69. “Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.” – Benjamin Franklin

70. “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

71. “You know what I’m doing for Easter? I’m gonna be hanging with my Peeps.” – Jay Leno

72. “Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” – Neltje Blanchan

73. “My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.” – Amy Sedaris

74. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” – Henri Matisse

75. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn

76. “There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

77. “In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” – 1 Peter 1:3

78. “The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.” – Billy Graham

79. “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

80. “The Earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson