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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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Most quoted on easter:

“If civil societies, including faith-based organisations, commit to aligning with the national priorities ... we can make of our Rwanda, the Promised Land.”

Jeannette Kagame

Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise.

Leila Aboulela River Spirit (2023)

Secularization should not scare us, but must be an opportunity for witnessing and proclaiming the Faith. Secularization is a field of evangelization

Paulo Cezar Costa

It's a fact that we are called to live in a climate of faith, above all, to give thanks to God for the witness that these brothers of ours left us.

José Ángel Saiz Meneses

Having faith is being grateful and finding the gratitude

Sanaa Lathan

I’ve been in a relationship with someone that didn’t really meet me at the same level of my faith and it was very, very difficult.

Catriona Gray

"My faith is unbreakable and cannot be shaken,"

Julie Anne San Jose

My faith has always driven me to keep pushing through the challenges, and I try to focus on what you can learn from them rather than complaining about them.

Marco van Staden

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

Richard Dawkins River out of Eden (1995)

I believe in human beings, but my faith is without sentimentality.

Pearl S. Buck This I Believe (1951)

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

Pearl S. Buck This I Believe (1951)

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Barack Obama

Ultimately, it is that faith — those ideals — that are the true measure of American leadership.

Barack Obama Address on interventions in Libya (2011)

Due to having faith one relies on the practices,
Due to having wisdom one truly knows.
Of these two wisdom is the chief,
Faith is its prerequisite.

Nagarjuna

Strong emotion - faith? - has different ways of being manifested among the different disciples within which people order their behaviour.

Nadine Gordimer Burger's Daughter (1979)

I have derived immense comfort, hope, faith, inspiration from a great American, the Cistercian monk-teacher-activist Thomas Merton.

Patrick White Australians in a Nuclear War (1983)

If there is a faith which can move mountains, then it is a faith in one’s own strength.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Aphorisms (1880)

Stark did not like them. There was a touch of madness in them, born of the long dark and the too-long-held faith.

Leigh Brackett The Ginger Star (1974)

Violence is against the very fabric of any faith tradition. When the faiths come together, any form of violence is absolutely abhorrent and out of the question.

Azza Karam

Those who practice faith should feel gratitude even after sitting and resting on a tree stump in the mountains.

Konko Daijin

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