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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:

That man who lives with his heart and who constantly dwells on the idea of being of service to the welfare of humanity, that man is in complete harmony with his higher Self.

Helena Roerich

Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction.

John Calvin

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

Maya Angelou

There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.

Aleister Crowley Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)

Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge... It has nothing to do with the individual. The ego or its separation is an illusion.

Erwin Schrödinger

Western civilisation, with its own spirituality, has permeated all corners of the earth. My thesis is that this is the spirituality of money.

Ulrich Duchrow

Even after all that, each and every being here believe,
that the heat will be defeated and coolness will prevail.
The experience knows
that the rule of an autocrat cannot last long.

Suman Pokhrel

How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

Michel de Montaigne Essais (1571)

What should it be, that thus their faith can bind?
The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!

Lord Byron The Corsair (1813)

From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.

Neil Gaiman The Books of Magic : The Invisible Labyrinth (1990)

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

Martha Graham

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love (1973)

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.

Terry Pratchett

We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.

Watchman Nee The Spiritual Man (1968)

I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern. My hopes, indeed, sometimes fail; but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

Thomas Jefferson

Blessing!
Neither fire, nor moisture, nor wind
can destroy the blessing of good deeds,
and blessings enlighten the whole world.

Gautama Buddha The Gospel of Buddha (1894)

Doctrine of reincarnation is neither absurd nor useless. It is not more surprising to be born twice than once.

Voltaire

6. I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

Jesus

What ardently we wish we soon believe.

Edward Young Night-Thoughts (1742)

Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe. Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

Jesus

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