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Quotes About Sabbath

Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon.
~ Herman Melville
When practiced, Sabbath-keeping is an active protest against a culture that is always on, always available and always looking for something else to do.
~ Stephen W. Smith
His soul was shaped by the cadence of Sabbath keeping and seasonal festivals that were intended to help Him and all people to remember God's faithfulness, protection, and provision.
~ Stephen W. Smith
Sea que la gente se dé cuenta o no, la popularidad del "domingo" como día de adoración semanal, ¡es de hecho una "marca" de la influencia y autoridad global de la bestia Católica Romana, "sobre toda tribu, lengua y nación" (Apocalipsis 13:7)!
~ Steve Wohlberg
I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock.
~ Stone Gossard
Yeah, I always had the habit of translating a lot of Black Sabbath records - that's kinda like how I first learned English, translating records.
~ Max Cavalera
God is most great! Allahu akbar! God is most great!" and sending the most faithful grimly shuffling through the dusky, unlit streets to salat al-'isha, the evening prayer. The Sabbath
~ Brian Catlos
Across from the lampstand is the table of showbread. It is three feet long and a half-foot wide and made of wood overlaid with ornately tooled gold. On it are twelve cakes of bread representing the twelve tribes of Israel, and they are replaced on the Sabbath. It is a meal for the priests to commune with the 'bread of life' of the presence of Yahweh.
~ Brian Godawa
Even in worship, the distinction of classes was observed on the Titanic; assistant purser Reginald Barker conducted the service for second-class passengers in their dining saloon, and a Catholic mass was held in the second-class lounge by Father Thomas Byles, followed by one for those in third class. (There was no Sabbath observance for the significant number of Jews on board, though kosher food was available in all classes.)
~ Hugh Brewster
Uncork the cider...Sabbath or no!
~ Thomas Hardy
On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.
~ Gene Perret
People that love this form of music have loved it from way back - Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.
~ Dimebag Darrell
Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.
~ Jason Newsted
I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.
~ Glenn Hughes
Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes!
~ Dimebag Darrell
My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.
~ Susan Isaacs
On such a Sabbath morn, were we pure enough to be its medium, we should be conscious of the earth's natural worship ascending through our frames, on whatever spot of ground we stood.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
On Sa-bat, from which comes our Sabbath, men as well as women were commanded to rest, for when the moon menstruated, the taboo was on everyone. Originally (and naturally) observed once a month, the Sabbath was later to be incorporated by the Christians into their Creation myth and made conveniently weekly.
~ Tom Robbins
I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.
~ Kip Winger
Then they labour anxiously, when they overdo it, to the loss of their quiet and health: then distrustfully, when they doubt God's providence, thinking that their own labour is the cause of their thriving, as if it were in their own hands to thrive or not to thrive. Then they labour profanely, when they set themselves to work like brute beasts, never raising their thoughts to God, nor sanctifying their labour with daily prayer; when on the Lord's day they do unnecessary servile work
~ George Herbert
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
~ George MacDonald
They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.
~ Geraldine Brooks
On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day.
~ Bible
Sabbath is always some of the best music ever. And the reason is because it grooves. It's funky. It's heavy. It's got lots of great changes, twists, and turns.
~ Robert Trujillo