Top 46 On The Sabbath Day Quotes
#1. Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and communing with the Lord on the Sabbath day.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#2. 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
#3. What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities.
James E. Faust
#5. Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.
William Topaz McGonagall
#6. Sabbath on Saturday in favor of The Lord's Day (Sunday). (Mag 9.1), rejected Judaizing (Mag 10.3), first use of term Christianity (Mag 10).
Josephus
#7. The Sabbath day has become a day of pleasure, a day of boisterous conduct, a day in which the worship of God has departed, and the worship of pleasure has taken its place. I am sorry to say that many of the Latter-day Saints are guilty of this. We should repent.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#8. The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#9. If you can't take a nap, if you can't take a day off, heaven's going to drive you nuts.
Mark Driscoll
#10. I further testify that when we eventually see things through the proper perspective of eternal truth, we will be amazed at how much we were blessed in important though often unperceived ways through keeping the Sabbath Day holy.
John H. Groberg
#11. It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.
Pico Iyer
#12. And ask them about the town that was by the sea - when they transgressed in [the matter of] the sabbath - when their fish came to them openly on their sabbath day, and the day they had no sabbath they did not come to them. Thus did We give them trial because they were defiantly disobedient.
Qur'an
#13. A life built upon Sabbath is contented because in rhythms of rest we discover our time is full of the holiness of God.
Shelly Miller
#14. The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil ... and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature ...
Henry David Thoreau
#15. When you abide with God in Sabbath, an unshakable confidence shines from the inside out, enticing others toward the gift of rest as well.
Shelly Miller
#16. Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.
James E. Faust
#17. Safely through another week, GOD has brought us on our way, Let us now a blessing seek On th' approaching sabbath-day:
John Newton
#18. 13Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God.
Anonymous
#19. God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
John Donne
#20. The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.
David K. Bernard
#23. God's creation is a life-giving inhale for all of us, and Sabbath is the exhale.
Shelly Miller
#24. Extravagant wastefulness in time might prove the most productive thing you choose for yourself.
Shelly Miller
#25. Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.
John Burroughs
#27. We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
Ville Valo
#28. We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#29. Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance.
James E. Faust
#30. Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.
Charles Buck
#31. Rest provides fine-tuning for hearing God's messages amidst the static of life.
Shelly Miller
#32. Pausing for prayerful listening, even for a few minutes, brings everything that is important back into focus.
Shelly Miller
#33. 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.
Henry Ward Beecher
#34. Sabbath isn't about resting perfectly; it's about resting in the One who is perfect.
Shelly Miller
#35. As we wait, God reveals his purpose in the preparations he is doing within us, and our hopeful outlook is the result.
Shelly Miller
#37. If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.
Eugene H. Peterson
#38. When we abide in Jesus, all our questions about how we Sabbath are answered in who we worship.
Shelly Miller
#39. He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.
Mark Twain
#40. As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
Abraham Lincoln
#41. A truth of the gospel is not a truth until you live it. You do not really believe in tithing until you pay it. The word of wisdom to you is not a truth of the gospel until you keep it. The Sabbath day is not a holy day unless you observe it ... A friend is not a friend unless you defend him.
Harold B. Lee
#42. Observe the Lord's Day as he would have you, and perhaps He will observe your days as you would have Him.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#43. When we trust God by taking our hands off our work, what we give up through Sabbath ultimately benefits those around us.
Shelly Miller
#44. One day a week I seek to rest
from earthly toil and sorrow.
Revitalized, I find the strength
to battle new tomorrows.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#45. Hans Walter Wolff has suggested that the Sabbath is the great equalizer, for that day is a foretaste of the kingdom when all-great and small-are reckoned to be exactly equal .2' All-masters and slaves-are to engage in this most godlike activity of being at peace.
Walter Brueggemann
#46. Many feel the terms "Sabbath day" and "play day" are synonymous ... But I ... know that remembering to keep the Sabbath day holy is one of the most important commandments we can observe in preparing us to be the recipients of the whisperings of the Spirit.
H. David Burton
