Rev. Louis G. Knowles in a sermon as reported in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio

Easter is a day for anthems and affirmations....

When the truth of Easter, Christ is a living Saviour, enters a man's heart, he stops speculating about the future and begins to live eternal life now. He ceases to wonder "if" and starts to believe it is.

Easter is not a memorial day honoring Christ Jesus....It is the day that celebrates the Christ who conquered death and is alive forevermore.

Rev. Alan Walker in an address reported in the Northern Daily Leader Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia

The future...of the world does not depend basically on new discoveries of wealth or science. As news of atom and hydrogen bombs filters through to us we know we cannot push much further that way and hope to live.

We need a faith that will break the tyranny of fear and foreboding. We need strength to use for peace and progress the forces of our hands, and we also need adequate moral and spiritual foundations which will carry the vast superstructure of our modern life....

God has a perfect pattern for the world. As we conform to it we live....As God is given His rightful place in our lives we discover life together. God gives dignity and worth to human personality.... He offers the nations light for living. Today the nations are in need of the abiding brilliance of the truth of God.

Rev. C. W. Lawton in a guest editorial in the Sheridan Press, Wyoming

America owes a deep debt of gratitude to its Sunday School teachers. As crusaders for Christ, they are unselfishly working in the Master's vineyards to bring God into the hearts and the minds of our children.

In a world choked by materialism, new challenges such as never before are now facing these Sunday School teachers....The immediate need facing the church and the Sunday School today is to bring the riches of Christ to every youngster in the nation....

The Sunday School and its teachers must stand as America's first line of defense to protect and teach the many misguided and neglected boys and girls of our nation.

The role of the Sunday School teacher too often remains unsung in the annals of history. His or her record of accomplishments, however, will be clearly set forth in the heavenly book of accounts.

Many times...[men and women] have testified that it was not the sermon which they had heard that caused them to accept Christ, but...a godly Sunday School teacher who had given out the Word of God, and the seed had been planted in their hearts when young. God's Word says, "My Word...shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it" (Isa. 55:11).

From an editorial in the Herald Star Steubenville, Ohio

No human mind could comprehend what must have been the impact of Easter on men's faith in the Christian era.

But it can be comprehended that without the soul-searching which has made possible the triumph of faith over despair for close to two thousand years there could have been no Christian era.

What happened during those final momentous days in Jerusalem could not have swayed the thoughts and deeds of so many generations of men had not the men relived to some degree in their own experiences the climactic ascendancy of the spirit over the flesh and all else that is mortal.

Faith is assailed no more harshly in this particular year of the age of light than it has been assailed in many other years. It is only human vanity which causes each new generation of men to believe there must be something uniquely perverse about themselves and their problems.

But faith is endlessly assailed.... Every voice being raised in leadership in the spirit of Christ is asking for the triumph of faith over rancor and malice.

Every Christian leader is mindful [today] as it has been needful to be mindful since Golgotha, that the son of man [Christ Jesus] forgave his persecutors because they knew not what they did. Otherwise, Christianity would have been a religion of revenge, not of love and compassion.

Earl L. Douglass, D. D., in the Star Journal, Pueblo, Colorado [Courtesy of Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, Inc.]

The plain teaching of the Bible is that the place to serve God is wherever we happen to be, and the way to serve Him is through the work we happen to be doing. If our work is one thing and our Christian service another, then there is something wrong. We can serve God by farming, selling goods, teaching school, attending classes, working in a mill, practicing a profession—or doing anything else that is useful. Probably the greatest and most universal sanctuary on earth is the Christian home. It is the church with the highest dome.