Top 40 Quotes About Sabbath Rest
#1. God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)
Charles R. Swindoll
#2. No Leslie, I'm not dead. I have finished building a world, and this is my Sabbath rest.
Vladimir Nabokov
#3. Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading
Joseph Hertz
#5. The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend. Your Sabbath, Lord, thus keeps us by Your will, not ours. And it is fit Our only choice should be to die Into that rest, or out of it.
Wendell Berry
#6. 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
#7. If you can't take a nap, if you can't take a day off, heaven's going to drive you nuts.
Mark Driscoll
#8. I would advise anyone who is at the start of a rest ritual like the Sabbath, to take it slowly and grow incrementally into it. Recognize that it will be hard at first. It's a discipline but then it is a true and deep joy.
Erica Brown
#9. I rarely feel such clear signs of fatigue and anxiety on days that are filled with travel, meetings and assignments - only when I stop to rest. Without sabbath, I would be dangerously ignorant of the true condition of my soul.
Andy Crouch
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.
James E. Faust
#13. Sabbath is the practice of letting life rest safely in God's hand.41
Walter Brueggemann
#15. 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
#16. God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
John Donne
#18. The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.
David K. Bernard
#19. Rest shows us who God is. He has restraint. Restraint is refraining from doing everything that one has the power to do. We must never mistake God's restraint for weakness. The opposite is true. God shows restraint; therefore, restraint is holy.
Matthew Sleeth
#20. God's creation is a life-giving inhale for all of us, and Sabbath is the exhale.
Shelly Miller
#21. Extravagant wastefulness in time might prove the most productive thing you choose for yourself.
Shelly Miller
#22. Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
Alice Walker
#23. 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
#25. Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
Marianne Williamson
#26. Rest provides fine-tuning for hearing God's messages amidst the static of life.
Shelly Miller
#27. 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
#28. Pausing for prayerful listening, even for a few minutes, brings everything that is important back into focus.
Shelly Miller
#29. Sabbath isn't about resting perfectly; it's about resting in the One who is perfect.
Shelly Miller
#30. As we wait, God reveals his purpose in the preparations he is doing within us, and our hopeful outlook is the result.
Shelly Miller
#31. 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
#32. Our Lord tells us that the Sabbath was made for man (Mark 2:27): it is a witness to our creatureliness, to the fact that we can rest because the government of all things is not on our shoulders, and our Lord is King over all creation.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#33. 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
#34. When we abide in Jesus, all our questions about how we Sabbath are answered in who we worship.
Shelly Miller
#35. Sabbath becomes a decisive, concrete, visible way of opting for and aligning with the God of rest.
Walter Brueggemann
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.
Mark Buchanan
#39. When we trust God by taking our hands off our work, what we give up through Sabbath ultimately benefits those around us.
Shelly Miller
#40. 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
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