Golden rule Quote by Ken Shigematsu

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

— Mark Buchanan

“Sabbath is not dependent upon our readiness to stop.”

— Peter Scazzero

“Sabbath is a time to transition from human doings to human beings.”

— Matthew Sleeth

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

— Louie Giglio

“God ordained the Sabbath for us, not just as another requirement from us.”

— Jen Hatmaker

“The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured. Blessed are you who honour this day.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us — not by becoming passive and lazy,…

— Marva J. Dawn

“A sabbathless life ends up with neither true work nor true rest, but with frantic and ineffective activity punctuated by couch-potato lethargy.”

— Andy Crouch

“There is no better point of entry to the religious experience than the Sabbath, for all its apparent ordinariness. Because of its ordinariness. The…

— Judith Shulevitz

Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without…

— Wendell Berry

“Sabbath-days. For the law commanded them to abstain from every servile work, that is, from all grasping after wealth which is procured by trading…

— The Church Fathers