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 different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
A man can be compelled to do anything, but his soul cannot be forced.
The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.
Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps the mind steady.
There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.
He believed because he wanted to believe. And that, too, is madness.
With life many things are remedied.
(While there's life there's hope.)
We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world.