Famous Quotes

"God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress."

Robert South on Easter

More quotes about Easter

• "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 on Easter

• "God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'"

  Billy Graham on Easter

• "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."

  Dwight L. Moody on Easter

• "Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."

  Pope John Paul II on Easter

• "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."

  Basil Hume on Easter

More quotes by Robert South

• "Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it."

• "The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words."

• "It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination."

• "God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress."

• "The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words."