Best Sabbath Quotations
144 Sabbath quotes by 115 unique authors
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...one's movement towards the divine reaches its end only when one reaches God... 'The true Sabbaths are the rest laid up for the people of…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special…
— Jonathan Sacks
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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…
— Tony Iommi
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Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and…
— Phil Anselmo
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As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal, glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gates…
— George Herbert
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
— Alexander Pope
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
— Alexander Pope
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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
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How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.
— James Grahame
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When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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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…
— Harold B. Lee
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Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others.
— Russell M. Nelson
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I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's…
— Ozzy Osbourne
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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…
— Ozzy Osbourne
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I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock.
— Stone Gossard
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You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten…
— Alan Dershowitz
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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
— Anita Diament
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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,…
— Tony Iommi
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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…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking…
— Thomas de Quincey
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'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…
— Rob Sheffield
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