Coretta Scott King Quotes

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

Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.

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.

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.

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

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.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

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.

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

But He is risen, a later star of dawn.

Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this creative act of God’s … Resurrection is not a consoling opium, soothing us with the promise of a better world in the hereafter. It is the energy for a rebirth of this life. The hope doesn’t point to another world. It is focused on the redemption of this one.

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

Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

It's like every day I'm born anew, without Jesus.

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.