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Easter Quotes

The sources for this page are the faith, hope and spirituality pages, not a collection of Easter writing. A few entries do mention the day: Longfellow’s The Spanish Student (1843) sets a scene on a bright Easter Sunday with blossoming trees, and W. H. Auden, in A Certain World (1970), says Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry but Good Friday cannot, any more than Auschwitz.

Most of what else you find here is general. Expect devotional writers and poets, with sources and dates on every quote page. Anything flagged as disputed or misattributed carries a note that says what the editors turned up.

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Jainism is basically a religious faith of the Thirthankaras. Jainism has come from the word Jin, which means the conquest of one’s own self in bondage

Hermann Jacobi

The true faith discovered was
When painted panel, statuary.
Glass-mosaic, window-glass,
Amended what was told awry
By some peasant gospeller.

William Butler Yeats The Tower (1928)

Your face and heart and speech, being one, require
Of any not base-born and servile-souled
Faith: and my faith I give you.

Algernon Charles Swinburne Marino Faliero (1885)

Faith dies, distrust is born.

Sophocles

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.

Erik Naggum

Faith does not mean paying lip service. Faith requires commitment.

Newton Lee

Faith is not a certainty. Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.

Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks The Case for God (2010)

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

John L. Lewis Labor and the Nation speech (1937)

Faith is to say "yes" to God. When man says "yes" to God, God says "yes" to man.

Frithjof Schuon

I've given lots of people chances, she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.

Sarah Dessen Someone Like You (1998)

Faith grows when we assume the position of one who can’t do it all by himself. That means we go to God, follow Him, and ask Him for help.

John Townsend Where Is God (2009)

America’s diversity is our greatest strength. Diversity is not easy. Diversity is a leap of faith that embraces all faiths.

Eric Garcetti

I do it for faith. That's clear, no?

Justo Gallego Martínez

Just take that first leap of faith and trust the process! All whilst working hard and intentionally at achieving the goal.

Keneiloe Molopyane

“Because it’s really a newfound faith na parang when I found Jesus in the center of my life, He’s a friend."

Angelu De Leon

Interviewer: What is your relationship with faith?

Mara Venier

Myths and endless genealogies ... promote controversial speculations rather than advancing God’s work—which is by faith.

Paul of Tarsus

[E]ither everything is illusion, nature as well as revelation, or experience alone can explain faith.

Julien Offray de La Mettrie Man a Machine (1747)

Whoever possesses the following three qualities will have the sweetness (delight) of faith

Muhammad

Only movements with particular social visions and practical goals can give faith a concrete, real-world shape

Ellen Willis Don't Think, Smile!: Notes on a Decade of Denial (1999)

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