Rachel Campos-Duffy Quotes

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

What is good about Good Friday? Why isn't it called Bad Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad, because though the bad was temporary, the good is eternal.

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.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God's saving, sovereign kingdom.

Two thousand years ago Jesus is crucified, three days later he walks out of a cave and they celebrate with chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps and beautifully decorated eggs. I guess these were things Jesus loved as a child.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.

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.

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.

God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death.

There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.

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

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

...the other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having been nailed to the cross.

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

I am one of the crucified dead.

Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.