Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers;
Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.
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.
Whatever faith you have, you ought to be willing to confront it with the discoveries of science.
I live in hope and that I think do all
Who come into this world.
Daughter of Faith, awake, arise, illume
The dread unknown, the chaos of the tomb.
While there is life there's hope (he cried,)
Then why such haste?—so groan'd and died.
Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth
Are children of one mother, even Love.
He ne'er is crowned with immortality
Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
Quaff immortality and joy.
Thus God's children are immortall whiles their
Father hath anything for them to do on earth.
Thy soul's flight,
If it find heaven, must find it out to-night.
Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.