Best Sabbath Sayings
144 Sabbath quotes by 115 unique authors
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
— Augustus William Hare
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Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject connected with her…
— Martha Finley
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space;…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
— Marianne Williamson
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Everybody knows that Black Sabbath started everything and almost every single thing that people are playing today has already been done by Black Sabbath. They…
— Rob Zombie
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Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.
— Mark Buchanan
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
— Lars Ulrich
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The seventh day of creation is the most eloquent and insightful as to the nature of God. From a literary perspective, the Sabbath forms the…
— Margaret Feinberg
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God is not merely at your fingertips but within your grasp. Live each day like a child digging through an antique treasure chest rifling for…
— Margaret Feinberg
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Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace.
— Ozzy Osbourne
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There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black…
— Henry Rollins
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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.
— James M. Barrie
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I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that…
— Chad Smith
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These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to…
— Frederick Douglass
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Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.
— John Flavel
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Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.
— Walter Brueggemann
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Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.
— Walter Brueggemann
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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…
— Priscilla Shirer
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God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)
— Charles R. Swindoll
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The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.
— David K. Bernard
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Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a…
— Marge Piercy
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The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of pleasure. The purpose…
— Timothy Keller
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Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?
— Thomas Carlyle
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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…
— Nikki Sixx
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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…
— Israel Shenker
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115 authors contributed a total of 144 Sabbath Quotes, led by these top contributors: