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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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No faith can possibly suffice. It’s always undermined by ignorance.

John Brunner The Tides of Time (1984)

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

Édouard Vuillard

Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.

Jack McDevitt Odyssey (2006)

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap and then you grow wings.

William Sloane Coffin Credo (2004)

God's language is action. For God, faith is a verb.

Steve Maraboli Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010)

Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it’ll be okay because of God.

James MacDonald Always True (2011)

Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God’s promises are always true.

James MacDonald Always True (2011)

The Christian way is a life of faith. In order to hold on to the promises of God, you’ve got to believe them and live by them.

James MacDonald Always True (2011)

A religion is a kind of group dream—the subjective poetry in which, supporting one another’s faith or need to believe, we strive desperately to believe.

Weston La Barre Hallucinogens and the Shamanic Origins of Religion (1972)

Hindsight can give you insights about what went wrong. But only faith, reason and bravery can propel you forward.

Julia Gillard

Zen has been called the "religion before religion," which is to say that anyone can practice, including those committed to another faith.

Peter Matthiessen Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982 (1986)

Faith and reason for Catholics are unified, they're both gifts of God's creation. Faith takes nothing away, but gives them a whole new way of being human.

Arthur Leo Kennedy

A faith that's moved by anger
A feeble faith must be.

Miguel Sánchez Requejo

He felt secure and trusted far too much in the good faith of the Turks, which gave the murderer his chance.

William of Tyre Historia (1170)

If you wish to love, it shall be, by my faith, for their beautiful eyes.

Molière

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Mahatma Gandhi

<!-- Playboy: Then for now, aren't you asking home-computer buyers to invest $3000 in what is essentially an act of faith?

Steve Jobs Playboy interview (1985)

In our windy world
What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Faith, like light, should ever be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.

Martin Luther Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

In this atmosphere of charity, where all faiths were alike and all professions joined hands, the church and the world became one.

Henry Adams Esther: A Novel (1884)

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