“ Most are inclined to recline into a reclining position, in order to enjoy the decline. Justin K. McFarlane Beau
“ Lucy's Sabbath was generally of this amphibious nature. She kept it without hypocrisy in the morning, and broke it without reluctance in the afternoon. E. M. Forster
“ I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, inst… Henry David Thoreau
“ The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship. David K. Bernard
“ Two or three angelsCame near to the earth.They saw a fat church.Little black streams of peopleCame and went in continually.And the angels were puzzledTo know why the people went thus,And why they stay… Stephen Crane
“ Believing this country to be a political and not a religious organisation ... the editor of the NATIONAL CITIZEN will use all her influence of voice and pen against 'Sabbath Laws', the uses of the 'Bi… Matilda Joslyn Gage
“ I find my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhaps the seventh day of one’s life as well, when one can feel that one’s work is done, and one may, in… Oliver Sacks
“ At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - tr… Charles R. Swindoll
“ God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Bible
“ On the front end it (Sabbath) hurts. Leaving my to-do lists alone. Trusting the universe will continue its forward motion without my intervention. Demonstrating that it is God who sustains me and not… Marcia Lebhar
“ Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence. Mitchell Symons
“ Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and c… Walter Brueggemann
“ Saturday, May 22d.---It is now Saturday night, and I must prepare for the holy Sabbath. My Bible and Confession of Faith are my traveling companions, and precious friends have they been to me. I bless… James Henley Thornwell
“ Divine worship means the same thing where time is concerned, as the temple where space is concerned. "Temple" means... that a particular piece of ground is specially reserved, and marked off from the… Josef Pieper
“ To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, to the wildest measure he had ever imagined, yet whi… Algernon Blackwood
