Easter is a time for celebration and reflection, a time to think about the importance of renewal and resurrection. To capture the spirit of the holiday, we’ve gathered 100 quotes from around the world that reflect Easter’s beautiful messages.

From spiritual reminders that faith will always lead you home to the joys of an egg hunt with loved ones, these quotes capture the essence of Easter in all its forms.

Take some time this Easter season to reflect on these wonderful words – they’ll warm your heart and give insight into how people around the world celebrate this special holiday!

100 Quotes, Sayings & Instagram Captions About Easter

  1. The great gift of Easter is hope. -Basil C. Hume
  2.  For I remember Easter morn, and life and love and peace are all newborn. -Alice Freeman Palmer
  3.  Easter is the one morning in all of history when the dawn came twice; once on the eastern horizon and again in eternity. -Craig D. Lounsbrough
  4.  The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with. -Siobhan Shaw
  5.  Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. -Janine di Giovanni
  6.  Easter is very important to me. It’s a second chance. -Reba McEntire
  7.  Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there. -Clarence W. Hall
  8.  The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies. -Kate McGahan
  9.  That is one good thing about this world; there are always sure to be more springs. -L.M. Montgomery
  10.  Spring is the time of plans and projects. -Leo Tolstoy
  11.  A flower blossoms for its own joy. -Oscar Wilde
  12.  Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. -S.D. Gordon
  13.  Where flowers bloom so does hope. -Lady Bird Johnson
  14.  ‘Twas Easter Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  15.  Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life. -Craig D. Lounsbrough
  16.  It is Easter. This is a season when we reflect on the suffering, sacrifice, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. -Emily Belle Freeman
  17.  The resurrection of Jesus is the most amazing miracle of all time. It is well documented that not only one person saw Him but hundreds. -Catherine Pulsifer
  18.  He bore sin’s heavy burden, the deeds of all mankind, the cross brought freedom, now salvation reigns! -Greta Zwaan
  19.  Easter promises that what God does in the resurrection of Jesus is God’s intention for the entire creation. -James A. Harnish
  20.  Let’s walk with him. Let’s see how Jesus spent his final days. Enter the holy week and observe. Feel his passion. Since his power. Hear his promise that death has no power. -Max Lucado
  21.  Jesus did not come to make God’s love possible, but to make God’s love visible. -Unknown
  22.  I pray that, as you read this, you will experience, as if for the first time, the scale and wonder of God’s love; and come, at the end of Lent, to the great festival of Easter knowing afresh what it means for God to love you and what it means to serve him in the world. -Stephen Cottrell
  23.  After Your Son lay three days in a dark hole, you turned the darkest Friday into the brightest Sunday. -Max Lucado
  24.  Easter can be the highlight of the year. Better than Christmas. Bigger than a birthday. And about so much more than just chocolate. -Ed Drew
  25.  We shall never understand the extent of God’s love in Christ at the Cross until we understand that we shall never have to stand before the judgment of God for our sins. -Billy Graham
  26.  As My Love moves within your heart, spirit, mind, and will, you will learn what it is truly like to be an Easter person spiritually. -John Palmer
  27.  Easter is an answer. It is such a dramatic, earth-shaking answer that for nearly twenty centuries, artists of every kind and quality have been trying to portray its significance. -J. Ellsworth Kalas
  28.  How can we joyfully anticipate Easter Sunday’s power without mournfully remembering our weakness? -Christopher Greer
  29.  He is risen. –Matthew 28:6
  30.  Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. –John 20:29
  31.  Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. –Martin Luther King Jr.
  32.  We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when His light illuminates the dark moments of our existence. –Pope Francis
  33.  Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. –Pope John Paul II
  34.  The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created spring. –Bernard Williams
  35.  I believe in Christ as I believe in the sun – not because I can see it, but by it I can see everything else. –C.S. Lewis
  36.  We love because He first loved us. –John 4:19
  37.  And by his wounds, we are healed. –Isaiah 53:5
  38.  And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here. –Saint Augustine
  39.  The great gift of Easter is hope. –Basil Hume
  40.  Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. –Janine di Giovanni
  41.  Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. –S.D. Gordon
  42.  The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies. -Kate McGahan
  43.  Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless. –Charles M. Crowe
  44.  I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive, yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me. -Galatians 2:20
  45.  For I remember it is Easter morn, and life, and love and peace are all newborn, and joy has triumphed over loss and pain. -Alice Freeman Palmer, On a Gloomy Easter
  46.  Here’s for me the one big question: How do you get Crucifixion, Resurrection, and then chocolate bunnies and colored eggs? How do you do that one? Even kids are going, ‘Rabbits don’t lay eggs. What is this?’ -Robin Williams
  47.  He got up. Death could not hold him. My savior He got up. An empty grave. Is there to prove. My savior He got up. -VaShawn Mitchell
  48.  What do the dear little flowers say? Listen, while slowly they bend and sway, bowing their heads in a reverent way, this Easter day. -Lizzie DeArmond
  49.  The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies. -Kate McGahan
  50.  The celebration of your resurrection over death is a celebration of life that should continue well beyond the sunrise service and the music, rehearsed for days prior; it is beyond the sign of spring, beyond the lily, beyond new lambs grazing in open fields. Resurrection is a daily celebration over fear; man’s greatest and most powerful enemy. -Unkown
  51.  Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. -Martin Luther
  52. Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. Is life ever so sweet and beautiful as when it comes up fresh in the spring? -S.D. Gordon
  53.  Our savior displayed on a criminal’s cross, darkness rejoiced as though heaven had lost. But then Jesus arose with our freedom in hand that’s when death was arrested and my life began. -Adam Kersh, Brandon Coker
  54.  Far from this foreign Easter damp and chilly, my soul steals to a pear-shaped plot of ground, where gleamed the lilac-tinted Easter lily soft-scented in the air for yards around. -Claude McKay
  55.  Well, Jesus kissed his mother’s hands whispered, ‘Mother, still your tears for remember the soul of the universe willed a world and it appeared.’ -Bruce Springsteen
  56.  If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. -Romans 10:9
  57. They say that oft at Easter dawn when all the world is fair, God’s angels out of heaven are drawn to list the music there. -Edna Dean Proctor
  58.  Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all your eggs in one basket. -Evan Esar
  59.  Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there. -Clarence W. Hall
  60.  We live and die; Christ died and lived! -John Stott
  61.  Do not abandon yourselves to despair: We are the Easter people, and Hallelujah is our song. -Pope John Paul II
  62.  Christ has not only spoken to us through his life but has also spoken for us through his death. -Soren Kierkegaard
  63.  Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless, and so is your faith. -1 Corinthians 15:14
  64.  Jesus did not die on the cross just so we could live comfortable, well-adjusted lives. His purpose is far deeper: He wants to make us like himself before he takes us to heaven. This is our greatest privilege, our immediate responsibility, and our ultimate destiny. -Rick Warren
  65.  Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. -Martin Luther
  66.  Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. -Watchman Nee
  67.  Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me! -Madeleine L’Engle
  68.  We must not forget that it wasn’t the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn’t the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world. -Franklin Graham
  69.   A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me. -Andrew Murray
  70.  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. -Phillips Brooks
  71.  He is risen; He is not there. -Mark 16:6
  72.  Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. -Martin Luther
  73.  The great gift of Easter is hope. -Basil Hume
  74.  Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. -Janine di Giovanni
  75.  If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave but it won’t stay there. -Clarence W. Hall
  76.  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. -Michael Leunig
  77.  The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise. -Carl Knudsen
  78.  Easter tells us of something children can’t understand because it addresses things they don’t yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness, and hovering fear of meaninglessness. -Frederica Mathewes-Green
  79.  Easter is the miracle of transformation as seen in the change of seasons, in the maturation of mortal persons, and in the resurrection of souls. -Richelle E. Goodrich
  80.  Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. -S.D. Gordon
  81.  Easter says that love is more powerful than death, bigger than the dark, bigger than cancer, and bigger even than airport security lines. -Anne Lamott
  82.  The Easter bunny ate all of the carrots we left for him. What a pig. -Steve Carell
  83.  New Rule: Someone must X-ray my stomach to see if the Peeps I ate on Easter are still in there, intact and completely undigested. And I’m not talking about this past Easter. I’m talking about the last time I celebrated Easter, in 1962. -Bill Maher
  84.  My favorite Catholic holiday is Easter. For those of you that don’t know, Easter is the day we celebrate Jesus rising from the grave and coming back to Earth as a rabbit that hides colored eggs. -Adam Ferrara
  85.  Easter combines the best of the present with the traditions of the past – like Cadbury cream eggs with hunting and gathering. -Melanie White
  86.  But what appeared to be a defeat was actually the greatest victory of all. In his death, Jesus defeated sin. On Easter morning, death too, was defeated. -Eugene H. Peterson
  87.  He paid on the rugged cross to have you and I cleansed of our guilt and sins. For it was during Easter that Jesus Christ re-wrote the story of mankind. -Francis Okumu
  88.  Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all of your eggs in one basket. -Evan Esa
  89.  It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls. –Katherine Lee Bates
  90.  On Easter Day, the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. –Douglas Horton
  91.  The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies. –Kate McGahan
  92.  He knows the way because He is the way. –Jeffrey R Holland
  93.  The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise. –Carl Knudsen
  94.  We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore. –Joel Osteen
  95.  Christ is risen from the dead! –Keith Green
  96.  We will give way no more to doubts and fears, but we will say to one another, He is risen indeed: therefore let our hearts be glad. –Charles Spurgeon
  97.  Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals. -Charles M. Crowe
  98.  We no longer live within the day on which death seemed victorious. We live in the day that came three days after. We call it Easter. –Marcia Laycock
  99.  He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man-made, He would have done no less. –C. S. Lewis
  100.  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. –Phillips Brooks

With Easter just around the corner, it’s a great time to take a moment and reflect on all of the wonderful quotes that have been shared over the years. From expressing gratitude for Christ’s resurrection to illustrating hope for overcoming difficult times, these quotes serve as an eloquent reminder of what this holiday is really about.

Whether you celebrate with a traditional Easter egg hunt or simply spend quality time with family and friends, there’s no doubt that Easter can bring joy and new life into our lives.

So whatever your traditions may be this year, keep these meaningful quotes close to your heart and enjoy this special holiday season.