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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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My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.

Lin Yutang The Importance of Living (1937)

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Alan Watts

By the side of this passage is a sketch of a cage with a bird sitting in it.

Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

I've always been a believer. I've been a believer in many different realms of alternate reality, the human capacity to move out of different planes of reality. It's something that has been with me since I was a child.

Gillian Anderson

At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be.

Lionel Trilling

“Do you still shout at people when they talk about their faith?”
I shake my head. “I grew out of that. Now I mostly let them damn themselves with their own ignorance.”

Emma Newman After Atlas (2016)

If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.

Joan of Arc Trial records (1431)

Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

Isaac Asimov The Foundation series (1951)

Without any interruption, practice meditation. Meditation includes not only sitting. Every moment of one's life is meditation. This means to experience the oneness of yourself, time, and place.

Gautama Buddha

I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.

Ogden Nash Good Intentions (1942)

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

Tom Clancy

Dreams, she said. Broken dreams are bad enough. But the dream that has no hope...the dream that is doomed long before it’s broken, that’s the worst of all.

Clifford D. Simak Time and Again (1951)

Abbot Zerchi smiled thinly. You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.

Walter M. Miller Jr. A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)

Ye come and go incessant; we remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past;
Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot,
Of faith so nobly realized as this.

James Russell Lowell The Cathedral (1870)

Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.

Stanislaw Ulam

The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.

Andrei Tarkovsky Sculpting in Time (1986)

The disciples surrounded with cheap marvels and wonders the lonely figure of that serene Soul, simple and austere in his yellow robes, walking with bared feet and bowed head towards Benares.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Eminent Indians (1947)

Om chanting and meditation is all about getting connected with our true nature.

Amit Ray OM Chanting and Meditation (2010)

I don't believe so much in religion as I do in spirituality.

Dada Vaswani

I acted like a punk. I was out of order beyond belief. I make no excuses for it.

Christian Bale

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