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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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Every Muslim must rise to defend his religion. The wind of faith is blowing.

Osama bin Laden

I doubt whether, in the eyes of pure intelligence, an ill-grounded hasty rejection be not a greater sign of weakness than an ill-grounded and hasty faith.

Margaret Fuller Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844)

Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practising whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faiths and beliefs.

Meher Baba The Everything and the Nothing (1963)

What can stand against loyalty? It is the faith that moves mountains.

John Buchan Midwinter (1923)

We are not all equal, and never shall be; the true postulate of democracy is not equality but the faith that every man and woman is worth while.

Stanley Baldwin

You can't do this if you're not dedicated and determined, and have a strong faith. Because it's extremely hard, especially trying to work a job and do it.

Ronnie Coleman

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

Johan Huizinga In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936)

The faith that education would destroy intolerance is false. It may be partly true, but people find that intolerance is fun.

Richard Summerbell

Does trust have to be earned? Or is it simply a matter of faith?

Nicholas Sparks At First Sight (2005)

The fear of God at the beginning of faith is an unbearable thing to human nature.

Thomas Müntzer Exposure of False Faith (1524)

Empty words and long praises do not impress God. Show Him your faith by your deeds.

Abdul Sattar Edhi

Compare yourself, for wealth, status and health to those lower than you. For faith, science, and virtue, compare yourself to those who are higher than you.

Ibn Hazm

Knowing nature closely and intimately enhances faith. So loving and caring for nature is a way of protecting your faith.

Jacob Thoomkuzhy

We don't have issues with other faiths in the locality. Some people are trying to create problems.

Antonysamy Savarimuthu

At your lowest point, the trickiest thing you can do is give in to depression and want to finish everything,” she reflected. “Have strong faith.

Kim delos Santos

IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Ambrose Bierce The Cynic's Dictionary (1906)

If the people have no faith in their rulers, there is no standing for the state.

Confucius

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene (1976)

Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower,
We feel that we are greater than we know.

William Wordsworth

Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

Fernando Pessoa

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