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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:

And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell,
In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.

Homer

Yet stab at thee who will,
No stab the soul can kill!

Walter Raleigh

Man who man would be
Must rule the empire of himself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A charge to keep I have,
A God to glorify:
A never-dying soul to save,
And fit it for the sky.

Charles Wesley

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

Epictetus

This shit is not for me – I don't care how enlightening it is.

Carlos Santana

Spiritual freedom has to be won by oneself for oneself through watchful and unfailing war against the lower self and the lower desires. (p 2313)

Meher Baba

Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor, and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?

Plato

It isn't at all a matter of being optimistic, but rather of continuing to have faith in the ongoing and literally unending process of emancipation and enlightenment that, in my opinion, frames and gives direction to the intellectual vocation.

Edward Said Orientalism (1978)

There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.

Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose (1980)

A politics of conscience is still yet possible. And yes….love will prevail.

Marianne Williamson

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

Isaac Bickerstaffe Love in a Village (1762)

My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.

Gillian Anderson

The soul is too great to know itself, yet each individual portion of the soul seeks this knowledge, and in the seeking creates new possibilities of development, new dimensions of actuality. The individual self at any given moment can connect with its soul.

Jane Roberts Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness (1986)

For me, seeking spirituality had a lot to do with trying to seek understanding about my conditions—how these conditions shape me in my everyday life and how I understand them as part of a larger fight, a fight for my life.

Patrisse Cullors

You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.

Freddie Mercury

'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Spanish Student (1843)

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

Max Lucado

Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given;
The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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