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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:

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.

Louis L'Amour Lonely on the Mountain (1980)

Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters.

Brian McNaughton

O my grief! Your life will be violently wrenched from you and that is more wounding to my heart and harsher to my soul.

Zaynab bint Ali

Whosoever refrains his soul from lust, verily Paradise shall be his abode.

Ali Hujwiri The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Hope and fear are like the two wings of a bird, when it is flying straight to its destination; of one wing fails its flights fails and if both fails, it dies.

Al-Qushayri The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002)

True faith can only be sustained through the love of Allah.

Meher Ali Shah The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002)

If my soul were in my hands, I would have released it.

Ahmad ibn Hanbal

Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.
Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

T. S. Eliot Choruses from The Rock (1934)

I’ve always been interested in foreign relations. It’s my belief that the study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.

Elizabeth Kostova The Historian (2005)

All thoughts that mould the age begin
Deep down within the primitive soul.

James Russell Lowell Poems (1844)

None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Divinity College Address (1838)

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations (1953)

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

Lin Yutang The Importance of Living (1937)

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

John Steinbeck The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)

The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Faith, like love, does not take up only a few hours of existence, but is its soul, its constant breathing.

Gianfranco Ravasi The Encounter: Discovering God Through Prayer (2014)

Implore God to deliver you from the wickedness of your soul.

Ali Hujwiri The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Renunciation of the world is reduction of hope for worldly gain, not eating coarse foods or wearing a rough cloak.

Sufyan al-Thawri The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Defer not the date of repentance for sins and confession in the hope of grace or longevity of life.

Shaqiq al-Balkhi The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Nonviolence does not necessarily emerge from a pacific or calm part of the soul. Very often it is an expression of rage, indignation, and aggression.

Judith Butler The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind (2020)

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