Easter Text SMS

Once more to new creation Awake, And death gainsay, For death is swallowed up of life, And Christ is risen today!

The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world.Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice.But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice. – Henry Knox Sherrill

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

The cross of Christ Shows us that God’s love Is of deepest descent… Universal distribution and Of eternal duration. – Dr. Fred Barlow

That great menacing Easter Island face.

Now let the heavens be joyful, Let earth her song begin: Let the round world keep triumph, And all that is therein;
Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend, For Christ the Lord is risen Our joy that hath no end.
Saint John of Damascus

Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all these, a season that stands for as much to the race as Easter does may well be remembered each year with songs and flowers and with every mark of gratitude and of loftiest jubilation.
– George Horace Lorimer

Christianity begins where religion ends…with the resurrection

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

Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Spanish Student