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.
If we can see our difficulties, there is a way of resolving them, or the hope of a way.
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet of the soul.
Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.
If we want a love which will protect the soul from wounds we must love something other than God.
The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
I hadn’t suspected that a tiny glimmer of hope for the future could transform someone so utterly.
Oh, God! it is a fearful thing
To see the human soul take wing
In any shape, in any mood.
Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful.