Top 100 Quotes About Sabbath
#1. Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world's beauty and abundance.
Wendell Berry
#2. A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us - not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.
Marva J. Dawn
#4. Worship that does not lead to neighborly compassion and justice cannot be faithful worship of YHWH. The offer is a phony Sabbath!
Walter Brueggemann
#5. With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song.
Carrie Brownstein
#6. If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
Zakk Wylde
#7. 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
#8. Pamphlets on Sabbath writing are in request here I have been applied to for them by several of the old Methodists knowing that I had them to sell before.
John Hawley
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.
Chaim Potok
#12. 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
#13. Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.
Jason Newsted
#15. Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
Marianne Williamson
#16. Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.
Walter Brueggemann
#17. 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
#18. Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then.
Ozzy Osbourne
#19. 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
#20. I was sick of fast, aggressive music; I felt like I needed to make a poppy thing. But, right now, I feel like I need to make a Hawkwind/Sabbath record. It gets boring if you just do the same thing all the time.
Ty Segall
#21. Rest provides fine-tuning for hearing God's messages amidst the static of life.
Shelly Miller
#22. Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
#23. 'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.
Rob Sheffield
#24. 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.
Wayne Muller
#25. The Lord shall do all for thee, and thou shalt do nothing, but be the Sabbath of Christ.
John Flavel
#26. Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.
Wayne Muller
#27. I don't work Sunday any more ... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death.
Alan Furst
#28. The Sabbath, along with the other practices he exposits, concerns the maintenance of a distinct faith identity in the midst of a culture that is inhospitable to all distinct identities in its impatient reduction of all human life to the requirements of the market.
Walter Brueggemann
#29. 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
#30. I like The Beatles and I like The Kinks and I like The Rolling Stones and I like Led Zeppelin and I like Black Sabbath.
Rachel Trachtenburg
#31. Pausing for prayerful listening, even for a few minutes, brings everything that is important back into focus.
Shelly Miller
#32. Holy Creator, thank You for instituting the Sabbath. Such a good idea!
Guideposts
#33. The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.
William Blaikie
#34. The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away and the paradise which is yet to come.
Andrew Wylie
#35. 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
#36. I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.
Geezer Butler
#37. Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.
James M. Barrie
#38. Sabbath isn't about resting perfectly; it's about resting in the One who is perfect.
Shelly Miller
#39. Israel is not free to exploit the land at will. Israel always lives in the land with the Lord, and his laws contain many instructions about how to manage the land properly. In particular, the law of the Sabbath is a powerful reminder that the Lord is the one who sustains the creation and
Craig G. Bartholomew
#40. Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading
Joseph Hertz
#41. Man is not made for the Sabbath. Rather, the Sabbath is made for man
Sunday Adelaja
#42. As we wait, God reveals his purpose in the preparations he is doing within us, and our hopeful outlook is the result.
Shelly Miller
#43. Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.
John Burroughs
#44. And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.
Samuel Rogers
#45. When practiced, Sabbath-keeping is an active protest against a culture that is always on, always available and always looking for something else to do.
Stephen W. Smith
#46. 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
#47. Jesus is a walking, living, breathing Temple, he is also the walking, celebrating, victorious sabbath.
N. T. Wright
#48. But their shoulders were as straight as they had been in the past: in the classroom, on the stage, at the Sabbath table. So there were other sources, too, of pride, and they had not left everything behind.
Lois Lowry
#49. The rest of the guys in Sabbath became boring old farts, and there I was, this crazy guy, still into wrecking hotel rooms and having parties.
Ozzy Osbourne
#50. My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it, she pulled a knife out of her belt and sliced open his chest, just like she used to open chicken breasts to stuff with rice for the Sabbath meal.
Etgar Keret
#51. It is time for us to breathe and build margin into our lives for God. Sabbath was intended as a gift, and it is still a gift to us today. If you are weary, worn out, and exhausted the concept of Sabbath will change your life.
Priscilla Shirer
#52. Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
Alice Walker
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it.
Tony Iommi
#57. It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance.
Billy Corgan
#58. 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
#59. When we abide in Jesus, all our questions about how we Sabbath are answered in who we worship.
Shelly Miller
#60. It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.
Billy Corgan
#61. Our Sabbath practices reveal which Trinity we truly worship: Father, Son, and Spirit ... or me, myself, and I.
Mark Hart
#62. 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
#63. When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.
David Pajo
#64. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
Chad Smith
#65. Jesus did not call upon people to repent, or fast, or observe the sabbath. He did not threaten with hell or promise heaven.
Robert W. Funk
#66. We used to sing the hymn "Take Time to Be Holy." But perhaps we should be singing, "Take time to be human." Or finally, "Take time." Sabbath is taking time ... time to be holy ... time to be human.
Walter Brueggemann
#67. It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!
Ozzy Osbourne
#68. Sabbath becomes a decisive, concrete, visible way of opting for and aligning with the God of rest.
Walter Brueggemann
#69. As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
Abraham Lincoln
#70. The golden rule for the Sabbath is cease from what is necessary and to embrace what gives life.
Ken Shigematsu
#71. 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
#72. 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
#74. The world is full of kings and queens. Who blinds your eyes, then steals your dreams. It's heaven and hell!
Black Sabbath
#76. I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.
Kip Winger
#77. In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show.
Ozzy Osbourne
#78. The 1844 judgment - more than the state of the dead, the Sabbath, the second coming - establishes the validity of Adventism.
Clifford Goldstein
#79. For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.
Tony Iommi
#80. I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC.
Paul Dano
#81. Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.
Geezer Butler
#82. I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records.
Ty Segall
#83. I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.
Henry Rollins
#84. But Sabbath is not only resistance. It is alternative. It is an alternative to the demanding, chattering, pervasive presence of advertising and its great liturgical claim of professional sports that devour all our "rest time.
Walter Brueggemann
#85. The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.
Dallas Willard
#86. The Muslims observe their Sabbath on Friday, the Jews observe on Saturday, and the Christians on Sunday. By the time Monday rolls around God is completely f***in' worn out.
George Carlin
#87. 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
#88. In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didn't get to when I was younger.
Rick Rubin
#89. Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old.
Nikki Sixx
#90. We cannot always judge man for only one part of his attitude. If we did so, we would be like the Pharisees in whose eyes Jesus was seen as bad, because He did not respect their rules about the Sabbath. They closed their eyes entirely to what would have lovable in Jesus, even in their sight.
Richard Wurmbrand
#91. He couldn't do it. He could not fucking die. How could he leave? How could he go? Everything he hated was here.
Philip Roth
#92. Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.
Mark Buchanan
#93. When we trust God by taking our hands off our work, what we give up through Sabbath ultimately benefits those around us.
Shelly Miller
#94. God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)
Charles R. Swindoll
#95. 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
#96. My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.
Susan Isaacs
#97. 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
#98. Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.
H.P. Lovecraft
#99. In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets. The Iliad is not Sabbath but morning reading, and men cling to this old song, because they still have moments of unbaptized and uncommitted life, which give them an appetite for more.
Henry David Thoreau
#100. We could call the second problem with the current Sabbath vogue the fallacy of the direct object. Whom is the contemporary Sabbath designed to honor? Whom does it benefit? In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.
Lauren F. Winner
