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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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There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. … It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships.

Norman Vincent Peale

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Henry Francis Cary

For the heart, it needs to believe.

Simon Soloveychik Parenting for Everyone (1989)

There littleness was not; the least of things
Seemed infinite; and there his spirit shaped
Her prospects, nor did he believe,—He saw.

William Wordsworth The Excursion (1814)

The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds; he whose words exceed his deeds, know verily his death is better than his life.

Bahá'u'lláh

Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain; and only faith can do it.

Josiah Gilbert Holland Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The object of faith is the truth, which God has revealed in an extraordinary way

Gottfried Leibniz

Not Truth, but Faith, it is
That keeps the world alive.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Paul of Tarsus

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine
By which alone the mortal heart is led
Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

George Santayana

Faith is the key that unlocks the cabinet of God's treasures; the king's messenger from the celestial world, to bring all the supplies we need out of the fullness that there is in Christ.

James Stephens Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Of one in whom persuasion and belief
Had ripened into faith, and faith become
A passionate intuition.

William Wordsworth The Excursion (1814)

One's thoughts turn towards Hope.

Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

Who bids me Hope, and in that charming word
Has peace and transport to my soul restor'd.

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,
Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;
Evil, be thou my good.

John Milton

“It’s the hope that’s important. Big part of belief, hope. Give people jam today and they’ll just sit and eat it. Jam tomorrow, now—that’ll keep them going forever.”

Terry Pratchett Hogfather (1996)

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.

Walter Scott Lady of the Lake (1810)

Hope makes itself every day
springs up from the tiniest places

Naomi Shihab Nye Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems (2020)

The mighty hopes that make us men.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

Woe to my wretched self! from what a height of hope have I fallen!

Terence

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