logo

Quotes About Observance

Why do they both refer to your deity while mating?" Tochee inquired as it munched on some rehydrated cabbage. "Is it a request for a blessing?
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Farside night acts as a magnet as they gather to observe the stars. Eyes and minds linked by telepathy, acting as a gigantic multi-segment telescope. There is no technology, no economy. Their culture is not orientated towards the mechanical or materialistic; their knowledge is their wealth. The data-processing capacity of their linked minds far exceeds that of any electronic computer system, and their perception is not limited to the meagre electromagnetic wavelengths of the optical bands.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
“The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.
~ Numbers 9:2
You are to observe it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with its statutes and ordinances.”
~ Numbers 9:3
“Tell the Israelites: ëWhen any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.
~ Numbers 9:10
On the eighth day you are to hold a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.
~ Numbers 29:35
Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.
~ Deuteronomy 5:1
No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.
~ Deuteronomy 16:4
It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes.
~ Deuteronomy 17:19
No such Passover had been observed from the days of the judges who had governed Israel through all the days of the kings of Israel and Judah.
~ 2 Kings 23:22
since they had been unable to observe it at the regular time, because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not been gathered in Jerusalem.
~ 2 Chronicles 30:3
The whole assembly agreed to observe seven more days, so they observed seven days with joy.
~ 2 Chronicles 30:23
In the eighteenth year of Josiahís reign, this Passover was observed.
~ 2 Chronicles 35:19
These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.
~ Esther 9:28
and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled—that is, unwashed.
~ Mark 7:2
Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.
~ Mark 7:3
And on returning from the market, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions for them to observe, including the washing of cups, pitchers, kettles, and couches for dining.
~ Mark 7:4
But all those who knew Jesus, including the women who had followed Him from Galilee, stood at a distance watching these things.
~ Luke 23:49
He who observes a special day does so to the Lord; he who eats does so to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.
~ Romans 14:6
You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
~ Galatians 4:10