Easter is a feast that commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is celebrated on the first Sunday after the full moon. In 2022, everyone will be celebrating Easter on Sunday, April 17 2022. Many Christians around the world celebrate Easter with special church services, music, candlelight, flowers and the ringing of church bells. Apart from the religious significance of Easter, it also has a commercial side. Below we’ve handpicked the collection of best happy Easter quotes and captions for Instagram 2022.
Why is it named Easter?
Why is Easter called ‘Easter’? Saint Bede the Venerable, a 6th-century author of Historia Ecclesiasticala Gentis Anglorum (“Christian History of the English People”), states that the English word “Easter” comes from Eustre, or Eestre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring and fertility.
Easter Quotes
- “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 very important to me. It’s a second chance.”- Reba McEntire
- “Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.”– Charles M. Crowe
- “Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all your eggs in one basket.”- Evan Esa
- “Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.” – Clarence W. Hall
- “On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.” — Douglas Horton
- “There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.”- Gordon B. Hinckley
- “The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.” — Carl Knudsen
- “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”- Pablo Neruda
- “The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.” – Kate McGahan
- “The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day He created spring.”– Bernard Williams
- “The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with.”- Siobhan Shaw
“The Earth laughs in flowers.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The great gift of Easter is hope.”- Basil Hume
- “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” – Corinthians
- “Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is.”- Jessica Harrelson
- “It’s when you crack open a chocolate Easter egg, that smiles emerge.” – Anthony T. Hicks
- “That is one good thing about this world, there are always sure to be more springs.”- L.M Montgomery
- “I must have flowers, always and always.”- Claude Monet
- “I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and true love. Don’t even try to tell me different.”- Dolly Parton
- “We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence.” — Pope Francis
- Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy.”- Dwight L. Moody
- “The deep roots never doubt that spring will come.” – Marty Rubin
- “Let your dreams blossom.”- Unknown
- “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” – Gustav Mahler
- “Jesus gave us spring as a reminder of how beautiful life can be after death.”- Unknown
- “But from this earth, this grave, this dust, my God shall raise me up, I trust.” — Walter Raleigh
- “May little chicks and flowers bring into your life the joys of spring.” – Easter Greeting
- “Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”- Hans Christian Anderson
- “Golf is just the adult version of an Easter Egg Hunt.” — Unknown
- “To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” — Bernhard Langer
- “Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.” – Anita Krizzan
- “Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe filled with slush.” – Doug Larson
“Spring is nature’s way of saying ‘Let’s party!’”- Robin Williams
- “Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.”- Virgil A. Kraft
- “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” – Margaret Atwood
- “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “Spring: A lovely reminder how beautiful change can truly be.”- Unknown
- “It is spring again. The Earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
- “I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.” – Ruth Stout
- “Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forget to bloom.” – Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
- “Spring is nature’s way of saying ‘Let’s party!’”- Robin Williams
- “Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soul.” – Bishop Reginald Heber
- “Spring’s greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.”- Edgar Guest
- “The first real day of spring is like the first time a boy holds your hand.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
- “Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” – Luther Burbank
- “Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in the books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” – Martin Luther
- “The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.” – S. Brown
- “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” – Lily Pulitzer
- “The first real day of spring is like the first time a boy holds your hand.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
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- “I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.” – Ruth Stout
- “I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.” – Dodie Smith
- “Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.” – Albert Lighton
- “The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.” – Robert Flatt
- “The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”- Harriet Ann Jacobs
- “Bunnies are cuddly, the large and the small, but I like the chocolate ones best of all.”- Unknown
- “Always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”- E.E. Cummings
- “‘Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.”- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- “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
- “All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.”- Unknown
- “Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.”- Charles Dickens
- “The promise of spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter.”- Jen Selinsky
- “No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.”- Sheryl Crow
- “God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.” – Corinthian
- “All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt!” – Charles M. Schulz
- “Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with our resurrection.” — Watchman Nee
