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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:

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it, seems to me the deepest root of all that is evil in the world.

Max Born Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance (1949)

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

George Washington

Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Hell is that state where one has ceased to hope.

A. J. Cronin The Keys of the Kingdom (1941)

While few customer offerings have a life, all great products and services have a soul.

Jonas Ridderstråle

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Peter Ustinov

If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

Terence McKenna

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Arthur Miller The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991)

The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.

Charles Sanders Peirce Collected Papers (1931)

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing — that the soul is eternal.

Meher Baba

One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate — and remain forever scatheless.

Eugene O'Neill Days Without End (1933)

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

Karl Barth An Almanac of the Christian Church (1987)

Hither and thither spins
The wind-borne mirroring soul,
A thousand glimpses wins,
And never sees a whole.

Matthew Arnold Empedocles on Etna (1852)

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

George Meade

I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.

Irena Sendler

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Thales A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908)

Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous — reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

L. P. Jacks Religious Perplexities (1922)

Hope as rich and green as the trees of an oasis.

Dawud Wharnsby Colours of Islam (1998)

I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension — tension is the only word for it — can be painted.

Patrick Swift

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Annie Besant Annie Besant: An Autobiography (1893)

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