You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Hope of consciousness is strength
Hope of feelings is slavery
Hope of body is disease.
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Don't gain the world and lose your soul
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
Lord of himself, though not of lands;
And having nothing, yet hath all.
A happy soul, that all the way
To heaven hath a summer’s day.
When the good man yields his breath
(For the good man never dies).
The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,
As streams meander level with their fount.
Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live.
I will suppose that all humankind have souls, a condition which, when sober, I do not hold.
Now, there remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.