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.
We understand the value of our soul from the efforts the devil makes to corrupt it.
If good faith were banished from the rest of the world, it should be found in the mouth of kings.
The sect of lovers is distinct from all others,
Lovers have a religion and a faith of their own.
If for the Faith thou bear’st thy wealth, it then
The Prophet says, is pure to righteous men.
The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
It is men of faith, not sceptics, who have made the world aware that they were in it.
The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with the faith to fight for it.
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.