Emily Dickinson Quotes

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.

Spring time is the land awakening.

The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.

Spring is when life's alive in everything.

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

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

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

In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who believe in His Son. That's what all the Robertsons are banking on.

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

A new year is a gift from God, a part of the Divine nature of God.

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.

Nature religions, for example, speak of summer, fall, winter, and spring. They see the downward path as the necessary prelude to any kind of upward path again. Our vocabulary is different. We Christians speak of the death and resurrection of Jesus. But unfortunately, we've projected it all onto Jesus and it didn't become a life agenda for the rest of us.

And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

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

April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

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

She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.

Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!