The proper relation is a minimum of creed and a maximum of faith.
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.
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.
Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
There is a third element in absolute faith, the acceptance of being accepted.
But in this lies, perhaps, one of its strongest claims to the faith of mankind.
Faith is the excuse people give for believing something when they don't have evidence.
Every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith.
And 't is my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.]
Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine.