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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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Most quoted on easter:

[Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi was blessed with] "the honour of martyrdom in the company of believers of pure faith."

Syed Ahmed Khan

I want to examine that dangerous thing that's common to Judaism and Christianity as well: the process of non-thinking called "faith". (Part 1, 00:00:55)

Richard Dawkins The Root of All Evil? (2006)

Faith is not in power but in truth.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov (1879)

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we lose faith in ourselves.

Gloria Steinem Revolution From Within (1992)

All nine Justices should tune out the bad-faith noise and feel totally free to do their jobs, following the facts and the law where they lead.

Mitch McConnell Collins, Manchin and other lawmakers react to the Supreme Court draft opinion (2022)

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.

Frank Pittman How to Manage Mom and Dad (1994)

In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel...

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

Certainly you will have doubts. There will be questionings and faith will return again. That is how faith is established.

Sarada Devi

Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached.

Sarada Devi

He who emphasizes the ritual of faith can lose the point of faith. (p141)

Clarice Lispector Um Sopro de Vida (1978)

…faith in God creates the possibility that even if our situations do not change, life can be good.

John Townsend Where Is God (2009)

You will not find another faith, but rather one and the same single religion presupposed everywhere

Nicholas of Cusa De Pace Fidei (The Peace of Faith) (1453)

Neither Germany nor Italy have doubts. Our crisis is not a material crisis. We have lost faith in our destiny...We are like mariners without a pilot.

Philippe Pétain

Faith or religion should not be respected to the extent that they peddle lies and deception, and fuel division, and hatred and intolerance.

Leo Igwe An Interview with Dr. Leo Igwe — Founder, Nigerian Humanist Movement (2017)

We had no ambition for more land or power, and nothing in the religion commands us to conquer non-Yazidis and spread our faith.

Nadia Murad

"I consider myself a fighting, inspiring and faith-filled woman."

Marileidy Paulino Interview with Diario Libre Newspaper (2023)

She was a faith healer, of sorts.
By that, I mean she always held a cure
for hopelessness, could lay a hand
on misery and make it smile
could ever hold.

Linda Hogan The Book of Medicines (1993)

Implicit in the devotion to purifying enzymes, is the faith of a dedicated biochemist of being able to reconstitute in a test tube anything a cell can do.

Arthur Kornberg

Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted; it’s for soldiers who are godly trusted because kids will test your faith, love and patience

Kelly Khumalo

Loss taught me the strength of faith. Faith in a God who understands. Faith in a Saviour who gave His all. Faith in a Comforter who walked by my side.

Nana Awere Damoah

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