Easter is God throwing everything at death so that I can give everything to life.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Easter is the final solution to the finality of death.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

— James Beattie

Sooner or later I will realize that the very things I most desperately need are the very things I am unable to give myself. Therefore, I will either be left despising the fact that I am doomed to live out a life that is perpetually empty, or I will realize that an empty tomb is the single thing that will eternally fill me.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

There are an incalculable number of things within me that I frantically wish to be emptied of, and despite my most earnest efforts to remove them, they remain. And it is Easter that reminds me that God empties out tombs.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Reasonably speaking, we can see the cross as entirely possible. But in considering Easter, we see an empty tomb as entirely impossible. And is it possible that God had to do the impossible to finally get our attention?

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... Converted it into a tomb.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne