Famous Quotes

"Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross."

William Barclay 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 William Barclay

• "The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way."

• "There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why."

• "Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross."

• "Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are."