Easter is a time of hope.
Of positive energy as the spring light and warmth is finally here and of spending quality time with the people who mean the most to us.
It’s a time for reflecting on what’s truly important in life and of thinking about new beginnings and transformation and what those things could mean in our own lives.
So in today’s post I’d like to inspire you and help you by sharing 101 of the most positive, inspirational and meaningful short Easter quotes.
I hope you’ll find something helpful and joyful here for yourself and your family and friends in this mix of positive, funny, religious and heartfelt sayings.
Short Inspirational and Positive Easter Quotes
“The great gift of Easter is hope.”
– Basil C. Hume
“Easter is very important to me. It’s a second chance.”
– Reba McEntire
“The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.”
– Carl Knudsen
“Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”
– Robert H. Schuller
“Easter is a time to rejoice, be thankful, be assured that all is forgiven so life extends beyond the soil of earth.”
– Byron Pulsifer
“Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.”
– Aberjhani
“Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.”
– Clarence W. Hall
“The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.”
– Kate McGahan
“Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.”
– Janine di Giovanni
“Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.”
– S.D. Gordon
“Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.”
– Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.”
– Robert Flatt
“Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.”
– N.T. Wright
“Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.”
– Charles M. Crowe
“A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.”
– James E. Faust
“Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.”
– Floyd W. Tomkins
“Easter is the soul’s first taste of spring.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich
“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Easter is a time of reflection and joy. When we emerge from our cocoon of doubt to fly freely on the wings of faith.”
– Unknown
“Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.”
– Charles M. Crowe
Short Happy Easter Quotes and Sayings for Family, Kids and Friends
“For I remember Easter morn, and life and love and peace are all new born.”
– Alice Freeman Palmer
“Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.”
– Gertrude Stein
“In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.”
– L. Frank Baum
“The best Easter is one spent with your Peeps.”
– Unknown
“My sun sets to rise again.”
– Robert Browning
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
– Margaret Atwood
“Don’t wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.”
– Shana Alexander
“Easter combines the best of the present with the traditions of the past – like Cadbury cream eggs with hunting and gathering.”
– Melanie White
“As for me, I will follow the path of the pink bunnies.”
– Magenta Periwinkle
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“The deep roots never doubt that spring will come.”
– Marty Rubin
“Bloom where you are planted.”
– Saint Francis de Sales
“Easter is love. Easter is the love of Christ and God our Father. Easter is the time to show love to all those who mean the most.”
– Unknown
“People celebrate Easter with their near and dear ones. Nothing can be a better holiday to spend with your family than to celebrate the journey of the life of Jesus.”
– Roma Downey
“The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with.”
– Siobhan Shaw
“Even the smallest one can change the world.”
– Peter Rabbit
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
– Anne Frank
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…”
– Susan Polis Schutz
“You’ll wake up on Easter morning, and you’ll know that he was there, when you find those chocolate bunnies, that he’s hiding everywhere.”
– Gene Autry
Short Religious Easter Quotes from the Bible and Famous People
“He is not here; he has risen, just as he said.”
– Matthew 28:6
“I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live.”
– John 11:25
“By grace we are saved through faith.”
– Kevin DeYoung
“Blessed are those who have not seen and have yet believed.”
– John 20:29
“He knows the way because He is the way.”
– Jeffrey R. Holland
“For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.”
– 1 Corinthians 15:21
“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.”
– Martin Luther
“Christ the Lord is risen today, sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; sing, ye heavens, and Earth reply.”
– Charles Wesley
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
– John 3:16
“On Easter Day, the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.”
– Douglas Horton
“I believe in Christ like I believe in the sun—not because I can see it, but by it, I can see everything else.”
– C.S. Lewis
“The resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.”
– Joseph B. Wirthlin
“We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence.”
– Pope Francis
“Unless there is Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.”
– Fulton J. Sheen
“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
– Pope John Paul II
“Look at the cross and you will know what one soul means to Jesus.”
– Mother Teresa
“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
– Saint Augustine
“Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with our resurrection.”
– Watchman Nee
“The hope for the future lies in the ancient miracle of Easter.”
– Unknown
“Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.”
– Victor Hugo
Short Funny Easter Quotes for Hilarious Holiday Humor
“I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don’t even try to tell me different.”
– Dolly Parton
“Egg hunts are proof that your children can find things when they really want to.”
– Unknown
“Good idea: finding the Easter eggs on Easter. Bad idea: finding the Easter eggs on Christmas.”
– Jack Handey
“Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.”
– Garrison Keillor
“A true friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg, even if you’re cracked.”
– Bernard Meltzer
“Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all your eggs in one basket.”
– Evan Esar
“The Easter Bunny ate all of the carrots that we left for him. What a pig.”
– Steve Carell
“All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt!”
– Charles M. Schulz
“There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate.”
– Linda Grayson
“You know what I’m doing for Easter? I’m gonna be hanging with my Peeps.”
– Jay Leno
“Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.”
– Amy Sedaris
“I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had three eggs… but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.”
– Caroline Rhea
“They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don’t find the eggs, they get booed.”
– Bob Uecker
“Easter is a time for dressing up, looking your best, and hunting for candy. It’s Halloween in reverse!”
– Melanie White
“Is the Easter Bunny a space alien trying to trick us into implanting us with his eggs? Because I will so swear off chocolate right now.”
– Thomm Quackenbush
“You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by the way he eats jelly beans.”
– Ronald Reagan
“It’s Easter, and they already have the Christmas decorations up.”
– Sally (from the short movie It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown)
“I’m a little hoarse tonight. I’ve been living off of Easter candy and Peeps. Sugar and yellow dye #5.”
– Stephen Colbert
“Here’s for me the one big question: How do you get Crucifixion, Resurrection and then chocolate bunnies, colored eggs? How do you do that one? Even kids are going, ‘Rabbits don’t lay eggs. What is this?’”
– Robin Williams
Short Easter Quotes on Spring and Beautiful Renewal in Life
“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.”
– Lilly Pulitzer
“That is one good thing about this world; there are always sure to be more springs.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.”
– Okakura Kakuz?
“Nothing is so beautiful as Spring.”
– Gerard Manley Hopkins
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Where flowers bloom so does hope.”
– Lady Bird Johnson
“‘Twas Easter Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is.”
– Jessica Harrelson
“My old things are passing away; behold, all things are becoming new.”
– 2 Corinthians 5:17
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
– Henri Matisse
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”
– William Shakespeare
“If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.”
– Jeannette Walls
“Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.”
– Albert Lighton
“Always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”
– e.e. cummings
“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.”
– Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the mind.”
– Luther Burbank
“Earth laughs in flowers.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I must have flowers, always and always.”
– Claude Monet
“Blossom by blossom the spring begins.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
– Hal Borland
Want more inspiration for your Easter and spring? Then take a look at the inspirational Easter quotes in this post and the short Easter captions here. Plus, these positive spring quotes and also these short spring quotes.