Easter wisdom dispatches the darkness

The Press wishes its readers a happy Easter.

Instead of plastic eggs or lukewarm ham, we offer these inspirational quotes instead.

POPE JOHN PAUL II

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

ROBERT H. SCHULLER

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

GORDON B. HINCKLEY

There would be no Christmas if there were no Easter.

POPE FRANCIS

We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence, and we are able to share it with others.

Jesus on the cross feels the whole weight of evil, and with the force of God’s love he conquers it; he defeats it with his resurrection. This is the good that Jesus does for us on the throne of the cross. Christ’s cross, embraced with love, never leads to sadness, but to joy, to the joy of having been saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.

DEEPAK CHOPRA

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

BILLY GRAHAM

God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to salvage and redeem them. The work of man’s redemption was accomplished at the cross.

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.

MAHATMA GANDHI

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. It was a perfect act.

DWIGHT L. MOODY

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining — they just shine.