20 Inspired Quotes to Celebrate Jesus Christ This Easter

“Whatever questions or problems you have, the answer is always found in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Learn more about His Atonement, His love, His mercy, His doctrine, and His restored gospel of healing and progression. Turn to Him! Follow Him!” (Russell M. Nelson, “The Answer Is Always Jesus Christ,” Liahona, May 2023, 127).

How can you make Easter more important for you and your family?

“Peace is found in faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. When He suffered for our sins and weaknesses, died on the cross, and rose again, the Savior rewrote humanity’s story. Because of Him, we do not have to deal with our frailties, sins, and fears alone. Because of Him, death is not the end. Resurrection will come to all who have ever lived. Because of Him, families can be together forever. Because of Jesus Christ, we celebrate Easter. And Easter is all about peace and hope” (Russell M. Nelson, “The Peace and Hope of Easter” [video], ChurchofJesusChrist.org).

What can you do to invite Christ’s peace and hope into your life?

“The more you learn about the Savior, the easier it will be to trust in His mercy, His infinite love, and His strengthening, healing, and redeeming power. The Savior is never closer to you than when you are facing or climbing a mountain with faith” (Russell M. Nelson, “Christ Is Risen; Faith in Him Will Move Mountains,” Liahona, May 2021, 103).

How can you feel Christ’s mercy in your life?

“I have learned that Heavenly Father’s plan for us is fabulous, that what we do in this life really matters, and that the Savior’s Atonement is what makes our Father’s plan possible” (Russell M. Nelson, “Think Celestial!,” Liahona, Nov. 2023, 117).

How does the Savior’s Atonement make God’s plan possible for you?

“The Resurrection from the dead is the reassuring personal pillar of our faith. It adds meaning to our doctrine, motivation to our behavior, and hope for our future.

“Because we believe the Bible and Book of Mormon descriptions of the literal Resurrection of Jesus Christ, we also accept the numerous scriptural teachings that a similar resurrection will come to all mortals who have ever lived upon this earth. As Jesus taught, ‘Because I live, ye shall live also’ (John 14:19)” (Dallin H. Oaks, “What Has Our Savior Done for Us?,” Liahona, May 2021, 75).

How can the Resurrection motivate your behavior?

“When you wonder how much pain you can endure well, remember Him. He suffered what you suffer so that He would know how to lift you up. He may not remove the burden, but He will give you strength, comfort, and hope. He knows the way. He drank the bitter cup. He endured the suffering of all” (Henry B. Eyring, “Tested, Proved, and Polished,” Liahona, Nov. 2020, 97).

How can Christ help you through your personal pain and weakness?

“Challenging times come in this mortal world, including to the faithful, but the reassuring message of Christ is that although He, the paschal lamb, would go like ‘a sheep before [its] shearers’ [Isaiah 53:7], He would nevertheless rise, as the psalmist said, to be ‘our refuge and strength, [our] very present help in [times of] trouble’ [Psalm 46:1]” (Jeffrey R. Holland, “Not as the World Giveth,” Liahona, May 2021, 35).

How have you felt Christ’s help in times of trouble?

“In every land and age, He has said to us all, ‘If any man [or woman] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me’ [Matthew 16:24].

“This speaks of the crosses we bear rather than the ones we wear. To be a follower of Jesus Christ, one must sometimes carry a burden—your own or someone else’s—and go where sacrifice is required and suffering is inevitable. A true Christian cannot follow the Master only in those matters with which he or she agrees. No. We follow Him everywhere, including, if necessary, into arenas filled with tears and trouble, where sometimes we may stand very much alone” (Jeffrey R. Holland, “Lifted Up upon the Cross,” Liahona, Nov. 2022, 78).

What does it mean to take up your cross to follow Christ?

“My beloved brothers and sisters, I testify that the most important day in the history of mankind was the day when Jesus Christ, the living Son of God, won the victory over death and sin for all of God’s children. And the most important day in your life and mine is the day when we learn to ‘behold the man’; when we see Him for who He truly is; when we partake with all our heart and mind of His atoning power; when with renewed enthusiasm and strength, we commit to follow Him” (Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “Behold the Man!,” Liahona, May 2018, 110).

How can seeing Christ for who He truly is help you renew your enthusiasm and strength?

“We begin to abide in the Lord by exercising our moral agency to take upon ourselves His yoke through the covenants and ordinances of the restored gospel. The covenant connection we have with our Heavenly Father and His resurrected and living Son is the supernal source of perspective, hope, power, peace, and enduring joy; it also is the rock-solid foundation upon which we should build our lives” (David A. Bednar, “Abide in Me, and I in You; Therefore Walk with Me,” Liahona, May 2023, 124).

How can your covenant connection with Christ help you find perspective, hope, power, peace, and joy?

“Because of the Savior’s Atonement, mercy can prevail for those who have repented, and it can allow them to return to the presence of God. We would do well to ponder this wonderful doctrine.

“None can return to God by his or her own good works alone; we all need the benefit of the Savior’s sacrifice. All have sinned, and it is only through the Atonement of Jesus Christ that we can obtain mercy and live with God” (Quentin L. Cook, “Be True to God and His Work,” Liahona, Nov. 2022, 119).

What can you do to increase your gratitude for the Savior’s sacrifice?

“We see the role of death in our Heavenly Father’s plan, but that plan would become void without some way to overcome death in the end, both physical and spiritual. Thus, a Redeemer, the Only Begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ, suffered and died to atone for Adam and Eve’s transgression, thereby providing resurrection and immortality for all. And since none of us will have been perfectly and consistently obedient to the gospel law, His Atonement also redeems us from our own sins on condition of repentance. With the Savior’s atoning grace providing forgiveness of sins and sanctification of the soul, we can spiritually be born again and reconciled to God” (D. Todd Christofferson, “Why Marriage, Why Family,” Liahona, May 2015, 51).

Why is repentance necessary to be reconciled to God if Christ has already died for us?

“By focusing our attention on Jesus Christ, all else around us—while still present—is viewed through our love for Him. Less important distractions fade, and we remove those things that are not in keeping with His light and character. As you continue to attentively catch hold of this thought of Jesus Christ, trust in Him, and keep His commandments, I promise you not only heavenly guidance but heavenly power—power that brings strength to your covenants, peace to your difficulties, and joy to your blessings” (Neil L. Andersen, “My Mind Caught Hold upon This Thought of Jesus Christ,” Liahona, May 2023, 93).

What distractions might be keeping your focus from Christ?

“Palm Sunday marked the beginning of the last week of the mortal ministry of Jesus Christ. It was the most important week in human history.

“What began with the heralding of Jesus as the promised Messiah in His triumphant entry into Jerusalem closed with His Crucifixion and Resurrection. By divine design, His atoning sacrifice concluded His mortal ministry, making it possible for us to live with our Heavenly Father for eternity” (Ronald A. Rasband, “Hosanna to the Most High God,” Liahona, May 2023, 108).

How can you more fully remember the Savior’s atoning sacrifice as you prepare to celebrate Easter?

“We as Latter-day Saints are endowed with a most remarkable Easter gift! A gift of unique witness, another testament of the Easter miracle that contains perhaps the most magnificent Easter scriptures in all of Christianity. I am referring of course to the Book of Mormon and, more specifically, to the account of Jesus Christ appearing to inhabitants in the New World in His resurrected glory” (Gary E. Stevenson, “The Greatest Easter Story Ever Told,” Liahona, May 2023, 7).

Why is it important to know that Christ appeared to the inhabitants of the Americas?

“[Jesus Christ] is our mark. If we incorrectly imagine that there is a need for something beyond what He offers, we deny or diminish the scope and power He can have in our lives. He has claimed the rights of mercy and extends that mercy to us. He is the ultimate ‘source [to whom we should] look for a remission of [our] sins’ [2 Nephi 25:26]. He is our Advocate with the Father and champions what the Father has wanted all along: for us to return to Him as inheritors in His kingdom” (Dale G. Renlund, “Jesus Christ Is the Treasure,” Liahona, Nov. 2023, 96).

How can you keep your focus on the Savior?

“We are less alone when we realize we are not alone. Our Savior always understands. With our Savior’s help, we can surrender our pride, our hurts, our sins to God. However we may feel as we begin, we become more whole as we trust Him to make our relationships whole” (Gerrit W. Gong, “Happy and Forever,” Liahona, Nov. 2022, 85).

How can surrendering pride, hurts, and sins to God bring you closer to Christ?

“Everything worthy and eternal is centered in the living reality of God, our loving Eternal Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ, and His Atonement, witnessed by the Holy Ghost. … I reverently witness and solemnly testify of the living Christ—He who ‘died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven’ [Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith (2007), 49]. He is Alpha and Omega—with us in the beginning, He is with us to the end” (Gerrit W. Gong, “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today,” Liahona, May 2018, 98).

How can you gain or strengthen a testimony of the living Christ?

“I can assure you that Christ is ever aware of the adversities we experience in mortality. He understands all of the bitterness, agony, and physical pain as well as the emotional and spiritual challenges we face. The Savior’s bowels are filled with mercy, and He is always ready to succor us. This is possible because He personally experienced and took upon Himself in the flesh the pain of our weakness and infirmities” (Ulisses Soares, “Jesus Christ: The Caregiver of Our Soul,” Liahona, May 2021, 83).

How does Christ’s understanding of your pain allow Him to succor you?

“If you are prone to worry that you will never measure up, or that the loving reach of Christ’s infinite Atonement mercifully covers everyone else but not you, then you misunderstand. Infinite means infinite. Infinite covers you and those you love” (Patrick Kearon, “God’s Intent Is to Bring You Home,” Liahona, May 2024, 88.)

How can you more fully remember Christ’s sacrifice?