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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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The Soul appears to be finite because of ignorance. When ignorance is destroyed the Self which does not admit of any multiplicity truly reveals itself by itself: like the Sun when the clouds pass away.

Adi Shankara Atma Bodha (1987)

The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated soul.

Joseph Campbell The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Eric Hoffer The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life but that great consciousness of life.

Jack Kerouac

The hope of all who suffer,
The dread of all who wrong.

John Greenleaf Whittier

So do not speak to me of souls when you have never seen one, man.

Roger Zelazny Jack of Shadows (1971)

A sensible man should not demand of me, or hope that when we mention a subject, we shall make a complete exposition of it.

Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed (1190)

Faith is never identical with "piety" even if it were the purest and finest.

Karl Barth

The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.

Katherine Anne Porter

Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.

Phillips Brooks

The success of sainthood is the success attained by struggle and suffering and achieved by faith; a success of honor, of clean hands and pure heart, of service to man and glory to God.

William Croswell Doane

The term knowledge raises philosophical eyebrows (strictly speaking, it should be called belief).

Zenon Pylyshyn

Zombies are soulless creatures, and being soulless has been empirically proven to result in an unpleasant disposition.

M. K. Hobson The Native Star (2010)

I will hew great windows, wonderful windows, measureless windows, for my soul.

Angela Morgan

Indeed, wisdom is born of meditation; without meditation wisdom is lost. Knowing this twofold path of gain and loss of wisdom, one should conduct oneself so that wisdom may increase.

Gautama Buddha

I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?

Dejan Stojanovic The Shape (2000)

The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

Victor J. Stenger In God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science (2012)

You I admire as being more, — much more — a man, and more believer too, than half the canting orthodox.

Morris West The Heretic (1968)

Some don’t believe that homosexuals can be pious. But we can be just as good at our faith as anyone else. We are simply different from other folks, not less committed to our faith.

Daayiee Abdullah

To plant trees is an act of faith.

Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

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