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1 " Man is not made for the Sabbath. Rather, the Sabbath is made for man "
2 " The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship. "
― David K. Bernard
3 " There's a pattern in these Commandments of setting things apart so that their holiness will be perceived. Every day is holy, but the Sabbath is set apart so that the holiness of time can be experienced. Every human being is worthy of honor, but the conscious discipline of honor is learned from this setting apart of the mother and father, who usually labor and are heavy laden, and may be cranky or stingy or ignorant or overbearing. Believe me, I know this can be a hard Commandment to keep. But I believe also that the rewards of obedience are great, because at the root of real honor is always the sense of the sacredness of the person who is its object. "
― Marilynne Robinson , Gilead
4 " There's a patter in these Commandments of setting things apart so that their holiness will be perceived. Every day is holy, but the Sabbath is set apart so that the holiness of time can be experienced. Every human being is worthy of honor, but the conscious discipline of honor is learned from this setting apart of the mother and father, who usually labor and are heavy laden, and may be cranky or stingy or ignorant or overbearing. Believe me, I know this can be a hard Commandment to keep. But I believe also that the rewards of obedience are great, because at the root of real honor is always the sense of the sacredness of the person who is its object. "
― Marilynne Robinson
5 " The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured. Blessed are you who honour this day. "
― Lailah Gifty Akita , Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1)
6 " I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams "
― , John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
7 " Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work. "
― Abraham Joshua Heschel , The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
8 " The fact that it has nothing else to contribute to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free licence to tell us what to do. Which religion, anyway? The one in which we happen to have been brought up? To which chapter, then, of which book of the Bible should we turn—for they are far from unanimous and some of them are odious by any reasonable standards. How many literalists have read enough of the Bible to know that the death penalty is prescribed for adultery, for gathering sticks on the sabbath and for cheeking your parents? If we reject Deuteronomy and Leviticus (as all enlightened moderns do), by what criteria do we then decide which of religion's moral values to accept? Or should we pick and choose among all the world's religions until we find one whose moral teaching suits us? If so, again we must ask, by what criterion do we choose? And if we have independent criteria for choosing among religious moralities, why not cut out the middle man and go straight for the moral choice without the religion? "
― Richard Dawkins , The God Delusion
9 " Heschel calls the Sabbath a cathedral in time. "
― , The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
10 " There is no better point of entry to the religious experience than the Sabbath, for all its apparent ordinariness. Because of its ordinariness. The extraordinariness of the Sabbath lies in its being commonplace. "
11 " Adams met with a convention on keeping the Sabbath and found the atmosphere surprisingly similar to that in Congress. Legalistic disputes so abounded that he found it difficult to keep order. "
12 " The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment. "
