Quotes of Sabbath - somelinesforyou

“ A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. ”

- Thomas Ybarra

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

- Robert Browning

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

- Unknown

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

- Alexander Pope

“ And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. ”

- Bible

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

- John Milton

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

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Better days are coming. They are called Saturday and Sunday. ”

- Unknown

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

- George Herbert

“ Now, really, this appears the common case Of putting too much Sabbath into Sunday — But what is your opinion, Mrs. Grundy? ”

- Thomas Hood

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

- Alexander Pope

“ I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ It's nothing that happens overnight. The process is beginning, and we'll be finished by Saturday. ”

- Paul Williams

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

- Bible

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

- Ovadia Yosef

“ We got fed up with, as soon as you mentioned Sabbath, the gloom and doom. I just wanted a lighter side of it to be looked on. ”

- Tony Iommi

“ Some keep the Sabbath going to Church I keep it staying at Home With a Bobolink for a Chorister And an Orchard for a Dome. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. ”

- Alice Walker

“ On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou. ”

- Matthew

“ The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal, glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope; Blessings are plentiful and rife. More plentiful than hope. ”

- George Herbert

“ For, bless the gude mon, gin he had his ain way, He's na let a cat on the Sabbath say "mew;" Nae birdie maun whistle, nae lambie maun play, An' Phoebus himsel' could na travel that day, As he'd find a new Joshua in Andie Agnew. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon. ”

- Ida B. Wells

“ In the late 19th century Evanston, Illinois, nicknamed "Heavenston" by Frances Willard, was a Methodist-minded town, so pious that the town fathers, resenting the dissipating influence of the soda fountain, passed an ordinance forbidding the sale of ice cream sodas on Sunday… ”

- William Lyon Phelps

“ We found in a lot of blues clubs that everybody's talking away so they're drowning you out. So we'd just turn up. We basically turned it up louder and louder and came up with this sort've Sabbath thing. It just sort of happened. ”

- Tony Iommi
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