Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.
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.
Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.
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.
They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.
More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.
In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.
The Sabbath-day is the savings-bank of humanity.
Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace.
Jesus did not call upon people to repent, or fast, or observe the sabbath. He did not threaten with hell or promise heaven.
There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.
If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.
Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs.
Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others.
Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.
The hushed winds their Sabbath keep.
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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.
"Sabbath is not primarily about us or how it benefits us; it is about God, and how God forms us. It is not, in the first place, about what we do or don't do; it is about God - completing and resting and blessing and sanctifying. These are all things that we don't know much about. . . . . . But it does mean stopping and being quiet long enough to see - open-mouthed - with wonder - resurrection wonder. . . . . we cultivate the "fear of the Lord". Our souls are formed by what we cannot work up or take charge of. We respond and enter into what the resurrection of Jesus continues to do. "