Quotes About Sabbath

Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance.

What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities.

Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.

You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.

As leaders have sought revelation, the guidance received over the past few years is to strengthen the sacrament meeting, honor the Sabbath day, and encourage and assist parents and individuals to make their homes a source of spiritual strength and increased faith—a place of joy and happiness.

Now in Medina, with its Jewish clans, he created the first mosque,a adopting the Jerusalem Temple as the first qibla, the direction of prayer. He prayed at Friday sundown—the Jewish Sabbath—fasted on the Day of Atonement, banned pork and practised circumcision. The oneness of Muhammad's God rejected the Christian Trinity but other rituals—the prostration on prayer mats—owed much to Christian monasteries;

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

You are to labor six days and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. Exodus 20:9–10

Jesus responded to them, "My Father is still working, and I am working also." John 5:17

Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it? Luke 6:9

In order to accuse Him, they asked Him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" Matthew 12:10

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth" (3 John 2 KJV). I wouldst wish for thou to goeth and concludest by thinking of thine own example of a Sabbath moment. If thou canst remember one, get thy rest-rebellious self out of thy workplace before thou collapseth.

moved. I told her we could do it tomorrow, but she said not on the Sabbath. Anyway,

The purpose of the Sabbath is for spiritual uplift, for a renewal of our covenants, for worship, for prayer. It is for the purpose of feeding the spirit, that we may keep ourselves unspotted from the world by obeying God's command.

If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.

What makes something pop? It's really just the bed it's placed in. If I grab melodies by Black Sabbath or Metallica and take them out of their musical bed and put them into a pop context, it's not like they wouldn't translate.

O Lord God, give peace unto us: (for Thou hast given us all things;) the peace of rest, the peace of the Sabbath, which hath no evening. For all this most goodly array of things very good, having finished their courses, is to pass away, for in them there was morning and evening.

In his nicotine addiction articles, he mentions one example—that Orthodox Jews who are addicted to cigarettes quit smoking "without a qualm" on the Sabbath.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

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 - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.

I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, say the blessing, and I don't turn on my computer for 24 hours.

When God created the world, He worked for six days and then rested. Adam was created on the sixth day. So God's seventh day—the Sabbath—was Adam's first full day.

There was a Sabbath lull in the air, which, in a settlement unused to Sabbath influences, looked ominous.