I’ve got to get some new quote books! I looked in six of my favorite quote books to find something said about “Good Friday.” There was nothing in any of them. How does that happen? Well, I guess they’re not really religious quote books, but still . . .

I did find some quotes about Easter—but only in one of those books. It did have several quotes, but none from anyone you would have heard about.

Since it is Easter weekend, and I am the author of “The Illegal Trial of Christ”, I thought I’d better include a few quotes about Easter at least. So here are a few (but you’ll have to look in your Encyclopedia to find out anything about the famous person being quoted!

“The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death—that is not the great thing—but that we are to be new here and now by the power of the Resurrection.” –Phillips Brooks

“The message of Easter cannot be written in the past tense. It is a message for today and the days to come. It is God’s message that must re-echo through our lives.” –Frank D. Getty

And

“If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it up in winding sheets, and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise!” –Clarence W.. Hall

Have a great Good Friday!