“Jesus Christ is risen today, our triumphant holy day.”
Lyra Davidica

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · EASTER
Read 200 of the best Easter quotes, Bible verses, hymns and blessings about hope, new life and the resurrection, perfect for Easter cards and captions.
“Jesus Christ is risen today, our triumphant holy day.”
Lyra Davidica
“The strife is o'er, the battle done; the victory of life is won.”
Francis Pott
“Up from the grave he arose, with a mighty triumph o'er his foes.”
Robert Lowry
“Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son; endless is the victory thou o'er death hast won.”
Edmond Budry
“Come, ye faithful, raise the strain of triumphant gladness.”
John Mason Neale
“The day of resurrection! Earth, tell it out abroad.”
John Mason Neale
“Welcome, happy morning! age to age shall say.”
John Ellerton
“Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day didst make thy triumph over death and sin.”
Edmund Spenser
“Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.”
Edmund Spenser
“Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise without delays.”
George Herbert
“Can there be any day but this, though many suns to shine endeavour? We count three hundred, but we miss: there is but one, and that one ever.”
George Herbert
“With thee let me combine, and feel this day thy victory.”
George Herbert
“At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise.”
John Donne
“Let him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Spring bursts to-day, for Christ is risen and all the earth's at play.”
Christina Rossetti
“Words cannot utter Christ His returning.”
Christina Rossetti
“Christ is arisen! Joy to the mortal one.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Released from ice are brook and river by the quickening glance of the gracious Spring.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“They celebrate the Resurrection of the Lord, for they themselves have risen with joy to-day.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.”
Martin Luther
“The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that we are to be new here and now by the power of the resurrection.”
Phillips Brooks
“If thou bear the cross cheerfully, it will bear thee.”
Thomas à Kempis
“We are an Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
Augustine of Hippo
“Christ is risen, and life reigns!”
John Chrysostom
“Let no one fear death, for the Saviour's death has set us free.”
John Chrysostom