Easter Good Friday Quotes

#1. Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#2. The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.

Bill Murray

#3. He had put so much space behind him that he had finally reached that place at which the past was indeed another country, the future was unimportant, only today existed, and even today merely unfolded, minute by minute.

Judith Krantz

#4. the trouble was he had nothing to say, but he loved saying it.

Penelope Wilcock

#5. Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#7. The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#9. Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

Richard Rohr

#10. When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes.

Coretta Scott King

#11. We're Easter people, living in a Good Friday world.

Anne Lamott

#12. Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

W. H. Auden

#13. Don't give me your Christian shit about forgiveness.

Bernard Cornwell

#14. Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Fulton J. Sheen

#15. I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be held there, God is able to bring healing to us ans new possibilities to our lives. That is, of course, what Good Friday and Easter are all about

N. T. Wright

#16. Every new morning brings new freshness and new renewal.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter.

Marianne Williamson