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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:

If you've lost your faith in love and music
The end won't be long
But if it's gone for you I too may lose it
And that would be wrong...

Pete Doherty

A so-called magician, more than a poet, must be born with a peculiar aptitude for the calling. He must first of all possess a mind of contrarieties, quick to grasp the possibilities of seemingly producing the most opposite effects from the most natural causes.

Alexander Herrmann

[I]t is doubtful whether we may name any weak thing as typically spiritual.

Alice Meynell John Ruskin (1900)

All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Coleman Barks The Essential Rumi (1995)

"Faith is accepted by free will, not by reason."

Petar Mitrikeski

I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.

Tennessee Williams

These things we also speak, not with words taught by human wisdom, but with those taught by [the] spirit, as we combine spiritual [matters] with spiritual [words].

Paul of Tarsus

When we have wandered all our ways,
shut up the story of our days,
but from this earth, this grave this dust,
my God shall raise me up, I trust.

Walter Raleigh

Spring bursts to-day,
For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play.

Christina Rossetti

Better trust all and be deceived,
And weep that trust, and that deceiving,
Than doubt one heart that, if believed,
Had blessed one's life with true believing.

Fanny Kemble

Faith is never identical with "piety".

Karl Barth

But faith, it keeps the lamp alight; in waiting and in expectation keeps the lamp alight to the end; and if fulfilment comes, still keeps the lamp alight, in not forgetting that it was impossible.

Søren Kierkegaard Gospel of Suffering (1847)

Beware of doubt—faith is the subtle chain,
Which binds us to the infinite; the voice
Of a deep life within, that will remain
Until we crowd it thence.

Elizabeth Oakes Smith

The triumph of hope over experience.

Samuel Johnson

A toy which people cry for,
And on their knees apply for,
Dispute, contend and lie for,
And if allowed
Would be right proud
Eternally to die for.

Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither.

William Wordsworth

I listen to the wind of my soul/Where I’ll end up, well, I think only God really knows

Cat Stevens

We're social animals, but we crave solitude to make our souls

Ursula K. Le Guin A Very Good American Novel (2013)

Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name.

John Dryden

The Higher Self is Atma, the inseparable ray of the Universal and One Self. It is the God above, more Self is than within, us. Happy the man who succeeds in saturating his inner Ego with it!

Helena Blavatsky The Key to Theosophy (1889)

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