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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:

My faith, my belief in humanity. I truly believe in it.

Sara Beysolow Nyanti

The law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

Paul of Tarsus

Thus I saw and understood that our faith is our light in our night: which light is God, our endless Day.

Julian of Norwich

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic — the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

Roger Ebert

Wake in our breast the living fires,
The holy faith that warmed our sires;
Thy hand hath made our nation free;
To die for her is serving Thee.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

We're all capable if we have faith and passion.

Yanni

"(...) Make your entire life an expression of your faith and love for your teacher – this is real dwelling with the Guru."

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Christmas story is at the heart of the … Christian faith. But the message of hope, love, peace, and joy — they’re also universal.

Joe Biden

Personally, I live by faith, blissfully happy night and day, no matter what I need to suffer or deal with.

Elias Aslaksen Elias Aslaksen's Last Messages, first English edition (1989)

I believe this year, I can win the Cy Young, and besides that, we will win the World Series. I guarantee that. I have faith in that.

Carlos Zambrano

My God! O let me call Thee mine!
Weak, wretched sinner though I be,
My trembling soul would fain be Thine,
My feeble faith still clings to Thee.

Anne Brontë Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846)

Blessed the man whose faith is different
from possessiveness - of a kind not framed by 'things which do appear' ( Hebrews 11:3)

Marianne Moore

Call no faith false which e'er has brought
Relief to any laden life,
Cessation to the pain of thought,
Refreshment 'mid the dust of strife.

Lewis Morris

Harry Dresden: I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it.

Jim Butcher Death Masks (2003)

We have a certainty about God and his ways that leads us to replace the mystery of faith with manageable spiritual formulas.

Skye Jethani The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

The Apocalypse is … the Apotheosis of that Sublime Faith which aspires to God alone, and despises all the pomps and works of Lucifer.

Albert Pike

Have faith in Divine Providence that guides the destinies of men and nations.

Manuel L. Quezon

[M]y religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

William Lyon Phelps

Mathematics fluourished as long as freedom of thought prevailed; it decayed when creative joy gave way to blind faith and fanatical frenzy.

Tobias Dantzig The Bequest of the Greeks (1955)

In fact, these terrorists have made the world’s Muslims their greatest target. We will not allow them to hijack our faith.

Abdullah II of Jordan Address to the European Parliament (2015)

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