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Sabbath Quotes


These are some of the best 'Sabbath' quotations and sayings.


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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like a summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the joyous day of the whole week.

Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!

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

God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other - it is for rest. - The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest, for instruction, for social worship, for gaining strength for the other six.

Hail, hallowed day, that binds a yoke on vice, gives rest to toil, proclaims God's holy truth, blesses the family, secures the state, prospers communities, nations exalts, pours life and light on earth, and points the way to heaven!

He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor.

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

Perpetual memory of the Maker's rest.

Sabbath, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Sunday is like a stile between the fields of toil, where we can kneel and pray, or sit and meditate.

Sunday is the common people's great Liberty day, and they are bound to see to it that work does not come into it.

Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.

The longer I live the more highly do I estimate the Christian Sabbath, and the more grateful do I feel to those who impress its importance on the community.

The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away, and the paradise which is yet to come.

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

The Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. - It invites to the noblest solitude and to the noblest society.

There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week.

There is a Sunday conscience, as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.

Through the week we go down into the valleys of care and shadow. - Our Sabbaths should be hills of light and joy in God's presence; and so as time rolls by we shall go on from mountain top to mountain top, till at last we catch the glory of the gate, and enter in to go no more out forever.


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