Sabbath Quotes - Page 2

• The state was made for man, not man for state.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, States, Made

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• Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Home, Gardening

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.324 (first published 1864).

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• If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Death, Drinking, Procrastination

  "On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts" (1839)

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• Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.

  Maria Jane McIntosh

  Beautiful, Sunday, Earth

  Maria Jane McIntosh (1847). “Two Lives: Or, To Seem and to be”, p.199

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• Bright shadows of true rest! some shoots of bliss;
  Heaven once a week;
  The next world's gladness prepossest in this;
  A day to seek;
  Eternity in time; the steps by which
  We climb above all ages: lamps that light
  Man through his heap of dark days; and the rich
  And full redemption of the whole week's flight.

  Henry Vaughan

  Dark, Men, Light

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Band

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.

  Charles Dickens

  Sunday, Coats, Week

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 524, 1895.

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• On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou.

  Matthew Arnold

  Summer, Lonely, Gay

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• Oh! welcome to the wearied Earth
  The Sabbath resting comes,
  Gathering the sons of toil and care
  Back to their peaceful homes;
  And, like a portal to the skies,
  Opens the House of God,
  Where all who seek may come and learn
  The way the Saviour trod.
  But holier to the wanderer seems
  The Sabbath on the deep,
  When on, and on, in ceaseless course,
  The toiling bark must keep,
  And not a trace of man appears
  Amid the wilderness
  Of waters--then it comes like dove
  Direct from heaven to bless.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Home, Son, Men

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• This Sabbath day has been designated as a day of thanksgiving, a day of gratitude-even a day of prayer. We pause, we ponder, we reflect on the blessings an all-wise Heavenly Father has bestowed upon us, His children, by bringing peace to the battlefield of war and comfort to the hearts of so many in this wonderful world where we live and which we call home

  Thomas S. Monson

  Wise, Gratitude, Prayer

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• Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunday, Together, Golden

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 525), 1895.

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• At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Greatness, Self, Challenges

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• Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Literature, World, Festivals

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.192, 谷月社

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• Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Heaven, Feels

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.166, Wordsworth Editions

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• As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of toil. It ensures the necessary vacation in those earthly and turbulent anxieties and affections, which would otherwise become inordinate and morbid. It brings around a season of periodical neatness and decency, when the soil of weekly labour is laid aside, and men meet each other amidst the decencies of the sanctuary, and renew their social affections. But above all, a Sabbath (one day of rest in seven) is necessary for man's moral and religious interests.

  Robert Dabney

  Religious, War, Son

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• The sabbath is God's special present to the working man, and one of its chief objects is to prolong his life, and preserve efficient his working tone. The savings bank of human existence is the weekly sabbath.

  William Blaikie

  Men, Special, Saving

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• Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competition.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Anxiety, Competition, Doe

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• Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Celebration, Celebration Of Life, Productivity

  Walter Brueggemann (2011). “Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries: Deuteronomy”, p.69, Abingdon Press

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• This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Sanctuary, Volume, Should

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• Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Delight, Service To Others, Rendering

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• I am no preacher of the old legal Sabbath. I am a preacher of the gospel. The Sabbath of the Jew is to him a task; the Lord's Day of the Christian, the first day of the week, is to him a joy, a day of rest, of peace, and of thanksgiving. And if you Christian men can earnestly drive away all distractions, so that you can really rest today, it will be good for your bodies, good for your souls, good mentally, good spiritually, good temporally, and good eternally.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Joy

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• Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Anxiety, Withdrawal, Pharaohs

  Walter Brueggemann (2010). “Journey to the Common Good”, p.26, Westminster John Knox Press

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• There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath. Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Spiritual, Ideas, Shining

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.99, Macmillan

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• I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Believe, I Believe

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• Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath.

  John Thorn

  Games, Play, Score

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