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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:

Most of my life is faith. When I have a dream, I pursue it without thinking about what would happen if it doesn’t work and this is what makes me

Mamokgethi Phakeng

I’d had conversations with my grandmother back in the day about just staying true to what my belief and what my faith is, and that’s always been the gospel

LaTocha Scott

Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.

Larry Niven Misattributed

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.

Franz Werfel Disputed Philippine Studies (1953)

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

William Ellery Channing Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

And he that makes his soul his surety,
I think, does give the best security.

Samuel Butler Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

The strongest love which the human heart has ever felt has been that for its Heavenly Parent. Was it not then constituted for this love?

William Ellery Channing Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Hope ever urges on, and tells us tomorrow will be better.

Tibullus Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

For fools are stubborn in their way,
As coins are harden’d by th’ allay;
And obstinacy’s ne’er so stiff
As when ’tis in a wrong belief.

Samuel Butler Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Every thing here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. When shall we awake to the sublime greatness, the perils, the accountableness, and the glorious destinies of the immortal soul?

William Ellery Channing Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

No, no! The energy of life may be
Kept on after the grave, but not begun;
And he who flagg’d not in the earthly strife,
From strength to strength advancing—only he
His soul well-knit, and all his battles won,
Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.

Matthew Arnold Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it … or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings—that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Gautama Buddha Attributed

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

W. Clement Stone Misattributed

There is nothing compulsory. One is not asked to violate cherished beliefs or accept any of the ideas presented. Rather, a healthy skepticism is encouraged.

G. I. Gurdjieff Misattributed

Corporations have neither bodies to kick nor souls to damn.

Andrew Jackson Disputed

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine of Hippo Disputed

I shall in no time forget that moment. We felt as if we had had in our souls a clear passing glimpse into this wondrous World.

Novalis Attributed Novalis (1829)

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Arnold Glasow Attributed

Hope, alas! is our waking dream.

Delphine de Girardin Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)

Of course not ... but I am told it works even if you don't believe in it.

Niels Bohr Disputed

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