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.
Great faith it needs, according to my view,
To trust in that which never could be true.
Faith is an humble, self-denying grace; it makes the Christian nothing in himself, and all in God.
Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.
Optimism is never faith in progress, but hope for a miracle.
Hatred towards people on the basis of their background or faith is repugnant
Let us not break faith with the British people by trying to stage another referendum
I too, having lost faith
in language, have placed my faith in language.
Faith is something I can talk about for hours, but I don't give it to you.
I take love as my religion wherever its caravans lead, for love is my religion and my faith.
The Faith of a Child came into being as a way of recording my early life, for my children.