Sabbath Quotes - Page 3

• Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above
  Brightens thy presence like a smile of love,
  Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea,
  The roughest waves of human destiny
  Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd
  Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Cheer, Blessing, Destiny

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.461

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• Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

  Aldo Leopold

  Government, Virtue, Conservation

  Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold (1983). “Building "The Land Ethic": a history of Aldo Leopold's most important essay”

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• The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.

  Israel Shenker

  Oasis, Desert, Restoration

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Faith in God engenders a love for the Sabbath; faith in the Sabbath engenders a love for God. A sacred Sabbath truly is a delight.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Delight, Sacred, Faith In God

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• More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

  Ahad Ha'am

  Israel

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• I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Prayer, Believe, Everyday

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• God is not merely at your fingertips but within your grasp. Live each day like a child digging through an antique treasure chest rifling for the next discovery. Open your arms and your eyes to the God who stands in plain sight and works miracles in your midst. Look for him in your workdays and weekends, in your meeting-filled Mondays and your lazy Saturdays. Search for him in the snowy sunsets and Sabbaths, seasons of Lent and sitting at your table. Pray for—and expect—wonder. For when you search for God, you will discover him.

  Margaret Feinberg

  Monday, Children, Sunset

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• The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of pleasure. The purpose of Sabbath is to enjoy your God, life in general, what you have accomplished in the world through his help, and the freedom you have in the gospel-the freedom from slavery to any material object or human expectation. The Sabbath is a sign of the hope that we have in the world to come.

  Timothy Keller

  Order, Expectations, Purpose

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• See, once you have begun to experience solitude and silence, you discover that you actually have a soul and that there is a God.Then you can begin to practice Sabbath and that will enable you to re-enter community.You can't have community without Sabbath.

  Dallas Willard

  Practice, Silence, Community

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• the life of Jesus recapitulates key elements in the earlier story of Israel. For a moment, as Jesus stands on the mountain giving the famous sermon, he is Moses. For a moment, answering his critics about his actions on the sabbath, he is David. For a moment, as he calls and names the twelve disciples, he is perhaps Jacob, bringing the twelve patriarchs into the world. For a moment, healing the sick and raising the dead, he is Elijah or Elisha. And so on. In the transfiguration he actually meets Moses and Elijah.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Healing, Names

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• Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

  Mark Buchanan

  Needs, Alive, Grows

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  If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

  Lars Ulrich

  Morning, Fun, Boys

  "Skynyrd, Sabbath, Blondie join rock's elite". The Associated Press, www.today.com. March 14, 2006.

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• E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.

  Alexander Pope

  Sunday, Shining, Sabbath Day

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1853). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.2

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• How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.

  James Grahame

  Song, Morning, Voice

  Henry Kirke White, James Grahame (1856). “The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White and James Grahame”, p.216

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• We don't go to Sabbath meetings to be entertained or even solely
  to be instructed. We go to worship the Lord. It is an individual
  responsibility, and regardless of what is said from the pulpit, if one
  wishes to worship the Lord in spirit and truth, he may do so by
  attending his meetings, partaking of the sacrament, and
  contemplating the beauties of the gospel If the service is a
  failure to you, you have failed. No one can worship for you. You
  must do your own waiting upon the Lord.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Responsibility, Waiting, Wish

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• On the Sabbath day, we are remembering that my relationship with God did not begin with what I've done, it is not sustained by what I do, and it is not guaranteed to the end by my effort or work. I'm saved from beginning to end by Jesus' work.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Effort, Done

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• The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Weekdays, Sake, Climax

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.26, Macmillan

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• To really observe the Sabbath in our day and age! To cease for a whole day from all business, from all work, amidst the frenzied hurry-scurry of our age! To close the stock exchanges, the stores, the factories - how would it be possible? The pulse of life would stop beating and the world perish! The world perish? To the contrary, it would be saved.

  Samson Raphael Hirsch

  Age, Pulse, Would Be

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• Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophy, Poetry, Week

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.14

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• The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I was a little boy, wandering around the stacks, pulling out every book with a picture of a pirate ship, a knight, a soldier, or an astronaut. My mom used to say, "This is my church, Ethan. This is how we keep the Sabbath holy in our family.

  Kami Garcia

  Mom, Book, Home

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• In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Giving, Imitating, Observing

  Lauren F. Winner (2007). “Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline”, p.11, Paraclete Press

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• Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

  John Burroughs

  Water, Earth, Holy

  John Burroughs (1921). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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• Graciousness, courtesy, compassion-this is hesed. Hesed is a quality that extends even to the animals and the land. The sabbath rest principle of Hebrew law included the needs of the livestock (Exod. 23:12). After seven years of planting and harvesting, the land itself needed "a year of complete rest" (Lev. 25:5). Even the soil of the vineyards was not to be overtaxed by planting other crops between the rows (Deut. 22:9). The oxen that trod out the grain were not to be muzzled so that they could eat while they worked (Deut. 25:4). And so on.

  Richard J. Foster

  Animal, Compassion, Oxen

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• Jesus once caused a sick man to arise on the Sabbath and take up his bed, whereupon the pious of the land raised a great outcry. But Jesus answered with superior contempt that the Sabbath was there for the sake of man, not man for the sake of the Sabbath; consequently, man was also master over the Sabbath.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Jesus, Men, Land

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 229, 1930.

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• Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.

  Marianne Williamson

  Silence, Soul, Silence Is

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 20, 2013

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