“Let every man and woman count himself immortal.You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise!” – Clarence W. “If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.“It is the hour to rend thy chains, / The blossom time of souls.” – Katherine Lee Bates.Forever Easter.” – David Housholder, The Blackberry Bush “If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life.

“I think of the garden after the rain / And hope to my heart comes singing, / ‘At morn the cherry-blooms will be white, / And the Easter bells be ringing!'” – Edna Dean Proctor, “Easter Bells”.“For I remember it is Easter morn, / And life and love and peace are all new born.” – Alice Freeman Palmer.“Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.” – S.D.“Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.” – Charles M.It is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, a day to banish doubts and seek the slopes where the sun is rising, to revel in the faith which transports us out of ourselves and the dead past into the vast and inviting unknown.” – Lewiston Tribune “Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generation or even to prove life eternal.

The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.” – W.H.

“Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot.

So, eat lots of chocolate!” – Elaine Sherman, Book of Divine Indulgences Your stress-free life helps you maintain a youthful disposition, both physically and mentally. Therefore, it counteracts depression, in turn reducing the stress of depression. “Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behavior by making you happy.“Angels, roll the rock away / Death, yield up thy mighty prey: / See, He rises from the tomb, / Glowing with immortal bloom.” – Thomas Scott, “Easter Angels”.“And what Thou art may never be destroyed.” – Emily Bronte, No coward soul is mine.For He departed, and behold, He is here.” – St. “And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him.Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?” – Hugh Mackay “A strangely reflective, even melancholy day.“ stone at dawn / cold water in the basin / these walls’ rough plaster / imageless…”.“A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world.

The Blackberry Bush by David Housholder