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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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Radical hope anticipates a good for which those who have the hope as yet lack the appropriate concepts with which to understand it.

Jonathan Lear

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.

Robin Sloan Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)

Indeed, what is magic but impossible science?

Michael Swanwick Stations of the Tide (1991)

Buddhism does not demand blind faith from its adherents. Here mere belief is dethroned and is substituted by confidence based on knowledge, which, in Pali, is known as Saddha.

Narada Maha Thera Buddhism in a Nutshell (1933)

Faith and God belong together somewhat as sense experience and physical reality do.

H. Richard Niebuhr Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (1960)

When we open up about our emotional challenges, admitting we are not perfect, we give others permission to share their struggles. Together we realize there is hope and we do not have to suffer alone.

Reyna I. Aburto

Hope is many things, but it throws itself against fact and shatters.

Pete Dunne The Feather Quest: A North American Birder's Year (1992)

The atheists have the greatest faith: they believe that God does not exist.

Andrzej Majewski Aphorisms: Magnum in Parvo (2000)

I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than five hundred who can't see the point.

Patrick Dixon Building a Better Business (2005)

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William Kingdon Clifford The Ethics of Belief (1877)

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Baruch Spinoza

Hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

Eckhart Tolle The Power of Now (1997)

We have never intended to enlighten shoemakers and servants—this is up to apostles.

Voltaire

This is a school in which no pupil ever fails; every one must go on to the end.

Charles Webster Leadbeater A Textbook of Theosophy (1912)

There are three lessons I would write, —
Three words — as with a burning pen,
In tracings of eternal light
Upon the hearts of men.

Friedrich Schiller

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that distinguishes the philosopher.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a lower to a higher state of rationality.

Paul Tillich The Courage to Be (1952)

It is clear from Gurdjieff's writings that hypnotism, mesmerism and various arcane methods of expanding consciousness must have played a large part in the studies of the Seekers of Truth.

P. L. Travers

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Christopher Hampton The Philanthropist (1969)

Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.

Allan Bloom

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