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.
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
Now God be praised, that to believing souls,
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!
God comes down in the rain,
And the crop grows tall—
This is the country faith,
And the best of all.
Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre —
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise,
Having naught else but Hope.
What reinforcement we may gain from hope;
If not, what resolution from despair.