Easter 2016: Quotes and messages you can share with loved ones

Christians across the world will celebrate Easter with the midnight service on Sunday to herald the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after he was crucified. The crucifixion of Christ was observed on Good Friday.

The Holy Week began with Palm Sunday on March 20 and comes to an end with Easter Sunday on March 27. 

Here are some messages and quotes you can share with your loved ones on Easter:

Messages

1. May this Easter bring you all together for a great celebration filled with lots of joy, happiness and love.

2. Wishing you a Happy Easter! May it be a wonderful time spent with your friend and family.

3. Easter celebration represents new life. Enjoy this holiday with your loved ones.

4. Christ showed His endless love by giving His Life to wash away our sins. May your have a wonderful Easter filled with love and peace.

5. Wishing you a peaceful Easter that fills you with new life and vitality.

6. Celebrate this holy week with a heart filled with peace and love towards your friends and enemies. Have a blessed Easter 2016.

7. May you be blessed with immense love from God, who will bring abundant happiness in your life by filling your heart with peace. Happy Easter.

8. It is the day to remember our Savior, who has risen from the dead. Easter greetings to you and your family.

9. Happy Easter everyone! Remember the reason for the season and make yourself and the world a better place.

Quotes

1. "When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”" —Matthew 27:52-54

2. "And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.""  —Luke 23:43

3. Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. — Pope John Paul II

Pope Francis celebrates Easter Mass in St.Peter's Basilica in 2014. -AFP

4. Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.' Phillips Brooks

5. There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.  —Gordon B. Hinckley

6. Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.  — Janine di Giovanni

7. "Jesus replied, 'The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.'" —John 12:23-25

8. “Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” —John 11:25-26

9. "For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.” —Romans 6:9-11

10. “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…” —Peter 1:3