Quotes about Commemoration
And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.
- Exodus 12:14
In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
- Exodus 12:18
On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.
- Numbers 28:17
On the eighth day you are to hold a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.
- Numbers 29:35
to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
- Esther 9:21
On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.
- Ezekiel 45:21
There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
- Samuel Johnson
O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again...
- George Eliot
But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge.
- Margaret Atwood
Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
- Johannes Tauler
There is power in remembrance, recalling, and memorial celebration.
- Eric Metaxas
Take this, all of you, and drink from it: this is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant. It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in memory of me.
- Robert Barron