Sunday, April 4, 2010

PASSOVER AND EASTER

Here are a few thought for Easter and Passover. I’ve begun with Passover.


"Remember this day, on which you went free from Egypt, the house of
bondage, how Adonai freed you from it with a mighty hand...."
-Exodus 13:3

"Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the
inalienable
right of every human being."
-Morris Joseph

"Passover has a message for the conscience and the heart of all mankind.
For what does it commemorate? It commemorates the deliverance of a people from
degrading slavery, from most foul and cruel tyranny. And so, it is Israel's -
nay,
God's protest against unrighteousness, whether individual or national."

-Morris Joseph

A combination of Easter and Passover:

"Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast--as you
really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed."
-1 Corinthians 5:7

Thoughts for Easter:

The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary
world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact
of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline,
and make the sacrifice.
~Henry Knox Sherrill

Could life so end, half told; its school so fail? Soul, soul, there is a sequel to thy tale!
~Robert Mowry Bell

Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.
~Charles M. Crowe

Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger;Stronger than the dark, the light;Stronger than the wrong, the right...
~Phillips Brooks, "An Easter Carol"

~Later-