Sabbath

“Thou art my single day, God lends to leavenWhat were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.”

“We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.”

“'The Christian Sabbath' is not in the Scripture, and was not by the primitive church called the Sabbath.”

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.”

“Moses, before he left Egypt, succeeded in securing for the Israelites the observance of rest on the Sabbath, by pointing out to Pharaoh the necessity--in his own interest--of granting his slaves one day every week freedom from labour, and thereby invigorating them for the renewal of labour after their rest.”

“That Saturday is the Sabbath proclaimed on Sinai was fully demonstrated to the Israelites in the wilderness. When, contrary to God's ordinance, they went out on that day to gather manna and found none, Moses told them 'See,'--he did not say 'Know' but See--that God has given you the Sabbath, pointing out to them visibly the Sabbath day.”

“The observance of the Sabbath proclaimed on Sinai by an Israelite outweighs all other commandments. And from the point of view that the Sabbath was established as a token between God and his people (Exod. 31. 13) one is justified in saying that it is not right and proper for a non-Jew to observe that Sabbath; it is the expression of a relation so intimate that the intrusion of a stranger would be resented.”

“The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.”

“Reason and sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of these alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicity and the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromise is impossible.”

“You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.”

“We did everything to save lives, despite Shabbat. People asked, 'Why are you here? There are no Jews here', but we are here because the Torah orders us to save lives… We are desecrating Shabbat with pride…”

“So sang they, and the empyrean rungWith Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept.”

“See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep,And all the western world believe and sleep.”

“E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.”

“YHWH commanded us to abstain from work on the Sabbath, and to rest, for two purposes; namely, (1) That we might confirm the true theory, that of the Creation, which at once and clearly leads to the theory of the existence of God. (2) That we might remember how kind God had been in freeing us from the burden of the Egyptians - The Sabbath is therefore a double blessing: it gives us correct notions, and also promotes the well-being of our bodies.”

“Unless ye fast from the world, ye shall not find the Sovereignty; unless ye keep the entire week as Sabbath, ye shall not behold the Father.”

“Surah ii. 61: "Ye know, too, those of you who transgressed on the Sabbath., and to whom We (God) said, Become scouted apes."”

“Surah iv. 50: "Or curse you as We (God) cursed the Sabbath breakers."”

“Surah iv. 158: "We (God) said to them (Israel), Break not the Sabbath."”

“Surah vii. 168: "And ask them (the Jews) about the city that stood by the sea when it's inhabitants broke the Sabbath; when their fish came to them appearing openly on their Sabbath-day, but not to them en the day when they kept no Sabbath."”

“Surah xvi. 125: "The Sabbath was only ordained for those who differed about it."”

“On Sundays, at the matin-chime,Round the Church of Brou.”

“Of all the days that's in the week,A Saturday and Monday.”

“How still the morning of the hallow'd day!The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.”

“Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps,For Sunday whispered, 'twas his will.”

“Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime,'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late.”

“The Sundaies of man's life,More plentiful than hope.”

“Now, really, this appears the common caseBut what is your opinion, Mrs. Grundy?”

“O day of rest! How beautiful, how fair,Day of the Lord, as all our days should be.”

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

“For, bless the gude mon, gin he had his ain way,As he'd find a new Joshua in Andie Agnew.”

“The sabbaths of Eternity,One sabbath deep and wide.”

“There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which 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.”

“I have, by long and sound experience, found that the due observance of the Sabbath day, and of the duties of it, have been of singular comfort and advantage to me. The observance of the day hath ever had joined to it, a blessing upon the rest of my time; and the week that hath so begun hath been blessed and prosperous to me.”

“Nothing draws along with it such a glory as the Sabbath. Never has it unfolded without some witness and welcome, some song and salutation. It has been the coronation day of martyrs — the first day of saints. It has been from the first day till now the sublime day of the church of God; still the outgoings of its morning and evening rejoice. Let us then remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.”

“Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,The bridal of the earth and sky.”

“Tell me how a professor spends his Sabbaths, and I will tell you in what state his soul is spiritually considered.”

“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 towards those who impress its importance on the community.”