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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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Most quoted on easter:

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

Peter Conrad Down Home (1988)

Georgians have a proverb: "custom is stronger than faith". It reflects Georgians' belief that the past is always trumps.

Stephen F. Jones Georgia: A Political History Since Independence (2013)

Springfield McKenna didn’t place much faith in rumors. She’d traded in them far too long to lend credence to someone else’s social munitions.

Jay Lake Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Miguel de Unamuno

Even where the Faith is preserved men pursue wealth and power inordinately. Where the Faith is lost they pursue nothing else.

Hilaire Belloc Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church (1929)

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not its taste, but its effect, ...

J. William Fulbright The Arrogance of Power (1966)

Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

The idea of the thing was attacked by good and bad men, in good faith and bad.

R. A. Lafferty Fourth Mansions (1969)

Is there no danger to liberty itself, in discarding the earliest practice, and first precept of our ancient faith?

Abraham Lincoln Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)

Moreover, in the Catholic Church itself, all possible care must be taken, that we hold that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, by all.

Vincent of Lérins

To persecute
Makes a faith hated, and is furthermore
No perfect witness of a perfect faith
In him who persecutes.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Queen Mary: A Drama (1876)

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

Daniel Webster On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843)

It is an article of faith that Mary is Mother of the Lord and still a Virgin.

Martin Luther

Who could believe in prophecies of Daniel or of Miller that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds?

Henry David Thoreau The Dispersion of Seeds (1993)

That's what faith is about — living with paradox.

Morris West The World Is Made of Glass (1983)

The naïve faith of the proletarian is the faith of the man of action. Rationality belongs to the cool observers.

Reinhold Niebuhr Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932)

Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me.

Walt Disney

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

Charles Spurgeon Lectures to My Students (1870)

Misplaced paranoia could be as great a mistake as misplaced faith.

Lois McMaster Bujold Cryoburn (2010)

Some poetic epics extolled heroism in warriors; Adelis the actual soldier put his faith in logistics.

Lois McMaster Bujold The Orphans of Raspay (2019)

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