“On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you.”
— Max Lucado
“Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.” –
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
–– Romans 3:23
“Go quickly, and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead.”
–Matthew 28:7
“If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
–Romans 10:9
“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
― Pope John Paul II
“Regardless of nationality, religion, or race, we are united by faith in God, and the barriers between us seem less significant. Observing the rites of Passover and Easter, we’re linked in time to the ancient origins of our values and to the unborn generations who will still celebrate them long after we’re gone. As Paul explained in his Epistle to the Ephesians, He came and preached peace to those who were near. So then you were no longer strangers and aliens, but you were fellow citizens of God’s household. This is a time of hope and peace, when we give thanks for our blessings—chief among them, freedom, peace, and the promise of eternal life.
–President Ronald W. Reagan (1983)
The Observations hopes that all our readers enjoy a glorious and happy Easter. May we heed the wisdom of those who came before us, and pass that wisdom onto those who come after us. For those readers who observe Passover, we offer the same hopes, that the blessings of the Lord will be upon you as they were on your ancestors whom he led out of Egypt.
GFK
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