Top Sabbath Quotes

Most are inclined to recline into a reclining position, in order to enjoy the decline.

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...

Sabbath Definition

(n.) A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day.

(n.) The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival.

(n.) Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like.

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.

The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.

Cherishing Jesus as gain above all people, above all wealth, above all powers.

God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)

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...

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...

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...

God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Day of the Lord as all our days should be!

The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.

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...

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...