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.
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.
Faith is not a thing that comes into being out of nothing. It originates in an event.
While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.
Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.
True Faith which leads to charity leads on to that which unites wills and affections, not opinions.
Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond toil.
Faith is the act of trust by which one being, a sinner, commits himself to another being, a Saviour.