3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
3 December 2020 Chita Rivera We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.
3 December 2020 Jane Elliot 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.
3 December 2020 Joel Osteen We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
3 December 2020 Bede Griffiths 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.
3 December 2020 William Tyndale 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.
3 December 2020 Daniel Morgan 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.
3 December 2020 Ethel Merman 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.
3 December 2020 Basil Hume 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.
3 December 2020 Jacques Pepin I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.
3 December 2020 Marvin Olasky 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.
3 December 2020 Lea DeLaria What do you mean you don’t believe in homosexuality? It’s not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn’t necessary.
3 December 2020 Bernhard Langer To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
3 December 2020 William Barclay 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.
3 December 2020 Leon Uris I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
3 December 2020 Josh McDowell Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
3 December 2020 Kenneth Scott Latourette The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus – His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.
3 December 2020 Todd Rundgren Most people outside of America won’t get it. It’s the Easter bunny. It’s another lie and I don’t understand why we had to invent this character.
3 December 2020 William Weld Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.
3 December 2020 Amy Sedaris I have always wanted a bunny and I’ll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
3 December 2020 John Guare And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life – it lives in the constant present.
3 December 2020 Dwight L. Moody 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.
3 December 2020 Deepak Chopra The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
3 December 2020 E. Stanley Jones 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.
3 December 2020 Josh McDowell 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.
3 December 2020 Michael Leunig 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.
3 December 2020 Hugh Mackay A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?
