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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:

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Arthur C. Clarke

They bring me faith like a closed package in someone else's plate. They want me to accept it so that I don't open it.

Fernando Pessoa

Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception — especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong.

Hunter S. Thompson The Rum Diary (1998)

We've always had a faith that the days of our children would be better than our own.

Jimmy Carter Presidency (1977)

Workers of my country, I have faith in Chile and its destiny.

Salvador Allende

In this faith I wish to live and die.

François Villon Le Grand Testament (The Great Testament) (1461)

Let God turn fear into faith. Instead of becoming a hesitant leader, ask God to make you bold and aggressive.

Craig Groeschel It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008)

What is faith? Faith is trusting God for your problems and for your life.

John Townsend Where Is God (2009)

Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, or self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself.

Karen Armstrong The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness (2004)

The Jews were behind all the persecutions of the Christians. They wandered through the country everywhere hating and undermining the Christian faith.

Justin Martyr

In my Archdiocese of Asmara, we have declared this week as a week of prayer from last Sunday to the coming Sunday. That is what we can do as a people of faith.

Menghesteab Tesfamariam

Christianity is deep, but also demanding. In the long run, however, it is the faith that really responds to man's deepest needs.

Giovanni Migliorati

Why, the very element of poetry is faith—faith in the beautiful, the divine, and the true.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Spirit brings faith, the faith.

Søren Kierkegaard For Self-Examination (1851)

(On his Catholic faith): "Certainly it has been the rock on which I have always been able to rely in good times and in bad, and it is the lodestone of my life."

Kamisese Mara The Pacific Way: A Memoir (1996)

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life

Madeleine Albright

Religious tolerance would be a shallow principle indeed if it were reserved only for faiths with which we agree.

Mitt Romney

"Let us respect each other and avoid causing unnecessary hurt to those with beliefs and faiths different from ours." (Pacific Magazine).

Laisenia Qarase

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