Easter is considered the nearly of import holiday for Christians around the world. People typically gloat by sitting down for elaborate brunches and dinners, embarking on Easter egg hunts, and gifting baskets.

For family and friends you won't become to see during the holiday, sending a missive with Easter wishes is a sweet way to let them know they're in your thoughts — whether it takes the course of a handwritten card, e-mail, or even a DM.

By sending a message, you'll also be continuing a long tradition of Easter correspondence. The custom of sending Easter cards dates dorsum at least to the late 1800 (cards from Victorian England were particularly distinctive). As this drove from The Postal Museum shows, Easter postcards depicted a mix of secular and religious imagery.

As for what to include in the message? Consider jotting downwardly memories of Easter celebrations past, or expressing gratitude for the person. You lot can also send Easter wishes by borrowing others' words, like these Easter-centric quotes.

With that in mind, we've gathered up dozens of inspiring, motivational, and renewing $.25 of text from the Bible, essays, poetry, and more than that speak to the significance of the Easter holiday and the theme of springtime. Whether you lot're sending a bill of fare to your grandma or a friend, you're sure to notice exactly the right phrase for your recipient.

Religious Easter wishes

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  • i. "He is risen! Wishing you a delightful Easter filled with promise, joy and the wonder of God's blessings."
  • 2. "Happy Easter! May the phenomenon of this beautiful and sacred twenty-four hours stay with you lot all year."
  • three. "This is the day the Lord has fabricated, let united states rejoice and be glad in it." — Psalm 118:24
  • 4. "The thought of Love Immortal blends / With addicted remembrances of friends; / In you, O sacred flowers, / By human love made doubly sweet, / The heavenly and the earthly run into, / The heart of Christ is ours!" — John Greenleaf Whittier, "An Easter Flower Gift"
  • 5. "Christ has turned all our sunsets into dawns." — Clement of Alexandria
  • 6. "The day the Lord created promise was probably the same day He created spring." —Bernard Williams
  • 7. "Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and however I say unto you lot, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like 1 of these." — Luke 12:27
  • 8. "Hail, Easter 24-hour interval!  / Beautiful, bright, breaking in glory thro' Earth'south dreary night, / Bells of the morning ring clear and strong, / Turning our silence to celebrating song." — Lizzie DeArmond, "Hail, Easter Day"
  • 9. "May the celebrity and the hope of this joyous fourth dimension of twelvemonth bring peace and happiness to you and those you hold most dear." — author unknown
  • 10. "On Easter Day the veil betwixt time and eternity thins to gossamer." — Douglas Horton
  • xi. "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will alive, even though they die; and whoever lives by assertive in me will never die." — John 11:25-26
  • 12. "Jesus, the Risen Lord, loves us without limits and is at that place at every moment of our lives.  He invites us to overcome barriers, banish prejudices and draw near to those around us every mean solar day in order to rediscover the grace of everyday life." — Pope Francis
  • 13. "Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless." — Charles M. Crowe
  • 14. "They say that oft at Easter dawn  / When all the world is off-white, / God's angels out of heaven are drawn / To list the music there. —Edna Dean Proctor, "Moscow Bells"
  • fifteen. "May God anoint you at Easter, and keep you all year through. May God give you all the organized religion you lot demand, to make your dreams come up true." — Irish blessing, author unknown
  • xvi. "Somehow Easter always carries with it more than of heaven than whatever other of the smashing anniversaries of the Christian year." — Margaret E. Sangster
  • 17. "Easter says to united states of america that despite everything to the contrary, His will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness." — Archbishop Desmond Tutu
  • xviii. "Yeah, Christ is truly risen, and we are witnesses of this. We proclaim this witness to the world, so that the joy which is ours will attain endless other hearts, kindling in them the light of the hope which does not disappoint." — Pope John Paul Ii
  • xix. "Elevator your voices in triumph on high, for Jesus is risen and man cannot dice." — Henry Ware
  • 20. "Easter says you tin put truth in a grave, but information technology won't stay there." —Clarence W. Hull
  • 21. "The discovery of the risen Christ on the start Easter 24-hour interval gave his followers new hope and fresh purpose, and nosotros can all take heart from this … May the living flame of the Easter hope be a steady guide as nosotros face the future." — Queen Elizabeth II
  • 22. "Our Easter is also a mystery of life." — St. John XXIII
  • 23. "Allow Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a scarlet-cresseted east" — Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Wreck of the Deutschland"

Easter wishes for loved ones

  • 1. "Happy Easter! May you be inspired by the joy, hope and renewal found in this beautiful season."
  • 2. "Hoping your Easter commemoration is sweeter than a marshmallow Peep and brighter than the bound sunshine."
  • 3. "I wish you a 24-hour interval filled with whatever makes you smiling and fills y'all with the promise of the Easter season. And chocolate, of course."
  • 4. "April prepares her green traffic light and the earth thinks: Go." —Christopher Morley, "John Mistletoe"
  • v. "Mercy, peace and dear exist yours in abundance." — Jude 1:2

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  • 6. "In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon information technology, / You'll exist the grandest lady in the Easter Parade. / I'll be all in clover and when they expect y'all over, / I'll be the proudest fellow in the Easter Parade. — Irving Berlin, "Easter Parade"
  • 7. "I saw an eagle one time circling against the clouds / over one of our principal churches— / Easter, information technology was—a beautiful day! / three gulls came from above the river / and crossed slowly seaward!" — William Carlos Wilson, "Gulls"
  • 8. "Every spring is the only spring—a perpetual astonishment." — Ellis Peters
  • nine. "Where flowers bloom, and then does hope." — Lady Bird Johnson
  • ten. "Allow everything you practice exist done in honey." — i Corinthians 16:14
  • 11. "The air was full of lord's day and birds, / The fresh air sparkled clearly.  / Remembrance wakened in my heart / And I knew I loved her dearly." — Robert Louis Stevenson, "Jump Song"
  • 12. "I stuck my head out the window this morn and spring kissed me bang in the face." — Langston Hughes, "The Best of Simple"
  • 13. "If Spring came simply once a century, instead of once a year, or burst along with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation in that location would exist in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!" — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Spring"
  • 13. "Hither's wishing y'all a brilliant Easter and a bright start to the leap season."
  • fourteen. "Happy Easter! Thinking of you, and sending you love on this twenty-four hour period."
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Easter wishes for kids

  • 1. "Bunny kisses and Easter wishes for a day that's truly eggscellent."
  • 2. "Are your ears burning? 'Cause some bunny is thinking virtually you and wishing you lot a Happy Easter!"
  • 3. "May the sun exist shining, the jellybeans plentiful, and the eggs like shooting fish in a barrel to find. Hoppy Easter!"
  • 4. "Sending warm fuzzies this Easter—remember that somebunny loves you!"
  • 5. "The seeds and flowers all sleep and so sound, / 'Til Easter time, glad Easter time, / And then they jump up from the ground / At happy Easter fourth dimension, / And as they ascension, they seem to say / "Hurray, it'southward Easter Solar day!"— Patty S. and Mildred J. Hill, "Hurray Information technology's Easter 24-hour interval"

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  • 6. "Yous'll wake up on Easter mornin' / And y'all'll know that he was at that place / When y'all detect those chocolate bunnies. / That he'due south hiding everywhere / Oh, hither comes Peter Cottontail / Hoppin' down the bunny trail / Hippity hoppity, happy Easter Day." — Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson, "Here Comes Peter Cottontail"
  • seven. "Every Easter egg has some magic inside / If you lot're lucky there might even be a surprise / They sense of taste so adept and are fun to share / Colorful Easter eggs everywhere, / A sure sign the Easter Bunny was there." — Bounce Patrol, "Easter Bunny Bop"
  • 8. "Real isn't how you are made … It'southward a thing that happens to you. When a kid loves you lot for a long, long time, non but to play with, but REALLY loves y'all, then y'all become Real. — Margery Williams, "The Velveteen Rabbit"

Funny Easter wishes

  • i. "Guess who's back? / Dorsum again / JC's back / Say Amen."
  • two. "Easter egg hunts: Proof your child can find things when they really desire to." — someecards.com
  • 3. "Happy Easter! Hither's a joke for you lot: Q: What did the Easter bunny say to the carrot? A: It's been nice gnawing y'all.""

4. "That's what I get to church for, to be surprised by organized religion and to autumn apart. Without the Resurrection, Episcopalians would be just a wonderful club of very nice people with excellent taste in music and literature, but when it hits you lot what you lot've really subscribed to, it blows the tiptop of your head off." —Garrison Keillor

Lexi Dwyer has been contributing to TODAY since 2015, writing nigh parenting, food, travel, health and more than. She began her career at Epicurious and afterward worked as both a travel editor and contributing editor at BRIDES magazine, where she took regular honeymoons and reported on food trends, party planning and bridal fashion. Since then she's been an editor and writer for Google, What to Expect, The Bump and People.com, equally well as many other impress and online publications. She lives in Brooklyn with her married man and two daughters.