Katharine Jefferts Schori Quotes

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.

Easter is all about remembering the importance of change, responsibility, and doing the right thing for the good of our children.

But He is risen, a later star of dawn.

I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.

Happy Easter everyone! Jesus dies, comes back from the dead - and we get chocolate eggs. It's like turn-down service from God.

The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.

Easter time reminds us that we have every right to believe that this hope is based on time-tested truths and a solid foundation.

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

...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.

What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God - which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - lasts forever. Because this event took place, there is no reason to despair, and even when we read the newspaper with all its confusing and frightening news, there is every reason to hope.

Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three

Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.

Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.