These quotes say it better than I could…

Matthew 27:50-53 (NIV): And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split. The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus’ resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

“Easter says you can put truth in the grave but it won’t stay there.” ~ Clarence W. Hall

“Christ the Lord is risen to-day,” Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.” ~ Charles Wesley

“We live and die; Christ died and lived!” ~ John Stott

“The tomb of Christ is famous because of what it DOES NOT CONTAIN.” ~ Sam Morris

“The stone was rolled away from the door, not to permit Christ to come out, but to enable the disciples to go in.” ~
Peter Marshall

“The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.” ~ Robert Flatt

John 11:25-26 (NIV): 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.”

“The biggest fact about Joseph’s tomb was that it wasn’t a tomb at all – it was a room for a transient.  Jesus just stopped there…on His way back to glory.” ~ Herbert Booth Smith

“Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.”  ~ Charles M. Crowe

“The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact.” ~ Paul Althus

“The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.”  ~ Carl Knudsen

“The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world.  Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice.  But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice.” ~ Henry Knox Sherrill

Matthew 28:1-10 (NIV): After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.

The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.”

So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”

Happy Easter!