On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but the dawn.
G. K. Chesterton

The resurrection is an exploding flare announcing to all sincere seekers that it is safe to believe. Safe to believe in ultimate justice. Safe to believe in eternal bodies. Safe to believe in heaven as our estate and the earth as its porch. Safe to believe in a time where questions won’t keep us awake and pain won’t keep us down. Safe to believe in open graves and endless days and genuine praise.
Max Lucado

The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don’t seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip; Our grief over those who have gone on is diminished; Our desires to press on in spite of the obstacles is rejuvenated… Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: “He is risen, indeed!”
Charles Swindoll

Christianity begins where religion ends- with the resurrection of Christ.
Unknown

The Cross is a picture of violence, yet the key to peace, a picture of suffering, yet the key to healing, a picture of death, yet the key to life.
David Watson

If Christ is risen, nothing else matters.  And if Christ is not risen- nothing else matters.
Jaroslav Pelikan

The only shadow on the cloudless Easter day of God’s victory is the poverty of my own devotion, the memory of ineffective hours of unbelief, and my own stingy response to God’s generosity.
A. E. Whitman

Easter is to our faith what water is to the ocean, what stone is to the mountain, what blood is to the body.
Raymond Linquist

That the Potter should die for His clay is a stupendous miracle.
Lynn Landrum

Never tolerate the idea of martyrdom about the cross of Jesus Christ.  The cross was a superb triumph in which the foundations of hell were shaken.  There is nothing more certain in time or eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the cross: He switched the whole of the human race back into a right relationship with God.
Oswald Chambers

The Easter message tells us that our enemies, sin, the curse, and death, are beaten.  Ultimately they can no longer start mischief.  They still behave as though the game were not decided, the battle not fought; we must still reckon with them, but fundamentally we must cease to fear them any more.
Karl Barth

The ascension of Christ is his liberation from all restrictions of time and space. It does not represent his removal from the earth, but his constant presence everywhere on earth.
William Temple

When Jesus cried, “It is finished,” He did not take away the conflict, the contest, the fight. No! He took away only your defeat.
Ira Taylor

I simply argue that the cross be raised again at the center of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; on the town garbage heap; at a crossroad so cosmopolitan that they had to write His title in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek; at the kind of place where cynics talk smut, and thieves curse, and soldiers gamble. Because that is where He died. And that is what He died about.
George MacLeod

The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer.
Peter Marshall

The resurrection that awaits us beyond physical death will be but the glorious consummation of the risen life which already we have in Christ.
D. T. Niles

The angel rolled away the stone from Jesus’ tomb, not to let the living Lord out, but to let unconvinced outsiders in.
Donald Grey Barnhouse 

Death died when Christ rose.
Unknown

A God on the cross!  That is all my theology.
Jean Lacordaire

It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.
Lesslie Newbigin

The message of Easter cannot be written in the past tense.  It is a message for today and the days to come.  It is God’s message which must reecho through your lives.
Frank Getty