45 Best Christian Quotes and Verses for Easter

As Christians, we rejoice that Jesus conquered death and rose from the dead on Easter Sunday. These Christian Easter quotes and verses call us to celebrate the promise of eternal life provided through the resurrection of Jesus Christ!

45 Best Christian Quotes and Verses for Easter

Christmas and Easter are my favorite holidays of the year.

I love the lights and music of Christmas, singing “Joy to the world, the Lord has come.”

With Christmas we celebrate the light of the newborn Son of God breaking into the darkness of the world.

And Easter proclaims that the baby born in Bethlehem grew up to be the sinless Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

I always look forward to spring with the blossoming flowers and newness of life. After a long, cold winter (at least in the part of the country I live in), it’s so refreshing to have bright, sunny days that warm the earth.

But as much as I love the natural wonders of springtime, the spiritual truth of Easter is even more powerful!

The coming of Easter reminds us that we can be forgiven, made right with God, and overcome death through the resurrection of Christ.

I’ve put together this list of some of the best Christian Easter quotes to encourage you and point you to the One who died in our place and then rose up on the third day.

May these quotes speak as powerfully to you as they do to me!

Easter Bible Verse Quotes

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” —John 11:25-26

From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. —Matthew 16:21

But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.” —Matthew 28:5-6

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. —1 Corinthians 15:3-4

But he was pierced for our transgressions;
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.  —Isaiah 53:5-6

And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large. —Mark 16:2-4

what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. —Ephesians 1:19-21

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. —Luke 24:1-3

Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. —Luke 24:45-47

For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. —1 Thessalonians 4:14

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. —1 Peter 1:3

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. —Revelation 1:17-18

Christian Quotes for Easter

A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.  —Andrew Murray

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

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 

The stone was rolled away from the door, not to permit Christ to come out, but to enable the disciples to go in. —Peter Marshall

The Saturday between Good Friday and Easter is a reminder that the silence of God doesn’t equal the absence of God. —Sheryl Griffin

Have confidence in the Risen One, and live in the power of his resurrection. —Charles Spurgeon

The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies. —Kate McGahan

The resurrection of Christ changed the midnight of bereavement into a sunrise of reunion; it changed the midnight of disappointment into a sunrise of joy; it changed the midnight of fear to a sunrise of peace. —Billy Graham

Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia! Earth and heaven in chorus say, Alleluia! Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia! Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia! —Charles Wesley

We live and die; Christ died and lived! —John Stott

Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life. —Craig D. Lounsbrough

For I remember it is Easter Morn and life and love and peace are all new born. —Alice Freeman Palmer

You can visit all the graves of all the religious leaders in the world, except Jesus Christ because there is no grave. —Charles Swindoll

Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.  —Watchman Nee

More Easter Christian Quotes

We ought to remember that He not only died and went to the grave—but that He rose again, and ascended up on high, leading captivity captive. We ought to remember that He is now sitting on the right hand of God, to do a work as real, as true, as important to our souls, as the work which He did when He shed His blood. Christ lives, and is not dead.  —J.C. Ryle

When the Lord Jesus now makes us partakers of His life, then it is not the life that He had before His death, but the resurrection life that He won through death. This is a life in which sin is already made an end of and put away. It is a life that has already conquered hell and the devil, the world and the flesh, a life of Divine power in human nature.” —Andrew Murray

Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness. —Floyd W. Tomkins

Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life. —Josh McDowell

The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is one of the best attested facts on record. There were so many witnesses to behold it, that if we do in the least degree receive the credibility of men’s testimonies, we cannot and we dare not doubt that Jesus rose from the dead. —Charles Spurgeon

To live in the light of the resurrection—that is what Easter means. —Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christ’s resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it. —John Flavel

We are adopted into God’s family through the resurrection of Christ from the dead in which he paid all our obligations to sin, the law, and the devil, in whose family we once lived. Our old status lies in his tomb. A new status is ours through his resurrection. —Sinclair B. Ferguson

Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.” —Phillips Brooks

Powerful Christian Resurrection Quotes

Because of the empty tomb, we have peace. Because of His resurrection, we can have peace during even the most troubling of times because we know He is in control of all that happens in the world. —Paul Chappell

The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates Christianity above all other world religions. —Adrian Rogers

Let no one fear death, for the Savior’s death has set us free. —John Chrysostom 

Easter is always the answer to “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!” —Madeleine L’Engle

The risen life of Jesus is the nourishment and strengthening and blessing and life of a Christian. —Alexander MacLaren

The resurrection was God the Father’s way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus. —R.C. Sproul

Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith. —George Carey

By Christ death was destroyed, and the corruption that goes with it resolved and brought to an end. —Athanasius of Alexandria

“He has cut down death and evil,

He has conquered all despair;

He has lifted from our shoulders,

all the weight of anxious care.”

—Willard F. Janusch

Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him. —A.W. Tozer

More Easter Inspiration

• Whole Wheat Resurrection Rolls
• Easter Coloring Pages
• DIY Easter Basket Ideas
• Non-Candy Easter Egg Fillers

Final Thoughts on Christian Easter Quotes

At the Easter season we celebrate the amazingly good news of the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus!

The great gift of Easter is that all people everywhere are called to turn from their sin and put their faith in the living Son of God.

While things like Easter eggs and bunnies may be a fun part of the holiday, only coming to know the one true God can give life the meaning and purpose that we crave.

I hope the Easter message of Jesus’ resurrection power will encourage your heart and fill you with hope in the promise of the resurrection!