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.
Personal beliefs are unarguable, even if the other side has all the facts.
There is but one hope, and this hope is embodied in the national groups which desire our recovery.
Such hopes now seemed ludicrous in their naivety, like trying to stop a bulldozer with a feather.
“I am of no faith,” said Aenea. “If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.”
He who cannot bridle his own lower soul, how can he purify the same of others.
Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.