Life Quote by Andy Crouch

“One of the largest obstacles to true Sabbath-keeping is leisure. It is what cultural historian Witold Rybczynski calls “waiting for the weekend,” where we…

— Mark Buchanan

If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our cancer, our…

— Wayne Muller

“Sabbath happens anywhere and everywhere we let go of the controls and lay the cares of our lives at His feet.”

— Louie Giglio

“However, by Sunday noon--not coincidentally, the unhappiest hour in America--you may have run through your options and wind up slumped on a couch, suffering…

— Winifred Gallagher

“Sabbath is the time set aside to do nothing so that we can receive everything, to set aside our anxious attempts to make ourselves…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“There are no guarantees that if we keep the Sabbath we will be successful. But honouring the Sabbath (and not overworking the other six…

— Ken Shigematsu

“Sabbath is not so much about a day off as it is a “day up”—a day to remember that He is God and we…

— Louie Giglio

As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of toil. It…

— Robert Dabney

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

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“To rest is not to withdraw from your life completely, but to participate in it fully, deeply, wildly.”

— Emmie Rae

“We seek rest in a struggle against some obstacles. And when we have overcome these, rest proves unbearable because of the boredom it produces...”

— Blaise Pascal

“The Jewish Sabbath may be too hard for some people, or they may not subscribe to its ideas; but within its own terms it…

— Herman Wouk