Giving Quote by Lauren F. Winner Download Open image “In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.” — Lauren F. Winner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Giving Giving A Gift God Imitating Inspirational Observing Sabbath
“The Sabbath is the most precious present mankind has received from the treasure house of God. All week we think: The spirit is too… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“it is extraordinary how few Christians make any concerted effort to keep the commandment of sabbath rest. We have somehow twisted Jesus’ pithy rebuke… — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The Sabbath is a holy day in which to do worthy and holy things. Abstinence from work and recreation is important, but insufficient. The Sabbath calls for constructive thoughts and acts, and if one merely lounges about doing nothing on the Sabbath, he is breaking it. To observe it, one will be on his knees in prayer, preparing lessons, studying… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share
“Sabbath is a time to transition from human doings to human beings.” — Matthew Sleeth Copy Share Image
“Sabbath is a way of life (Heb 4:3; 9-11). It is simply "casting all your anxiety on Him," to find that in actual fact… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The sabbath is God's special present to the working man, and one of its chief objects is to prolong his life, and preserve efficient… — William Blaikie Copy Share Image
There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“This is how sin works: it whispers to us about the goodness of something not good. It makes distortions feel good. It tells us… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“The change, I think, that conversion gradually effects on your heart is this: you come, over some stretched-out time, to want to do the… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“...but that is how the clues God leaves sometimes work. Sometimes nothing comes of them. Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“No, no, I'm not one of them. I'm one of you. I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, but I also wear fishnet stockings… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“Here is the thing about God. He is so big and so perfect that we can't really understand Him. We can't possess Him, or… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“People think Judaism and Christianity are radically different from one another, and that the difference is straightforward. But on Ascension Day, I am struck… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“[T]hat finally is the questions, that is the anguish--to abide in God's hiddenness is one thing, to abide in God's absence is altogether something… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I hope I… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image