Sabbath Quotes

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Exodus 20:8

Sabbath = How To Live in Heaven Day

The Sabbath calls our thoughts to nature, and brings us into communion with the Creator. In the song of the bird, the sighing of the trees, and the music of the sea, we still may hear His voice who talked with Adam in Eden in the cool of the day. And as we behold His power in nature we find comfort, for the word that created all things is that which speaks life to the soul.

Ellen G White

A life built upon Sabbath is contented because in rhythms of rest we discover our time is full of the holiness of God.

Shelly Miller

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Isaiah 58:13-14

Rest provides fine-tuning for hearing God's messages amidst the static of life.

Shelly Miller

God never intended that the Sabbath should be a burden to any one, but rather a blessing; and he will now make it such to all who honor him in its observance.

Ellen G White

The Sabbath was not for Israel merely, but for the world. It had been made known to man in Eden, and, like the other precepts of the Decalogue, it is of imperishable obligation.

Ellen G White

The Sabbath points [us] to the works of creation as an evidence of His mighty power in redemption. While it calls to mind the lost peace of Eden, it tells of peace restored through the Saviour.

Ellen G White

The value of the Sabbath as a means of education is beyond estimate. Whatever of ours God claims from us, He returns again, enriched, transfigured, with His own glory…the portion of our time which He claims is given again to us, bearing His name and seal.

Ellen G White

The Sabbath is a sign of creative and redeeming power; it points to God as the source of life and knowledge; it recalls man's primeval glory, and thus witnesses to God's purpose to re-create us in His own image.

Ellen G White

On this day more than on any other, it is possible for us to live the life of Eden.

Ellen G White

Since the Sabbath is the memorial of creative power, it is the day above all others when we should acquaint ourselves with God through His works.

Ellen G White

God never intended that the Sabbath should be a burden to any one, but rather a blessing; and he will now make it such to all who honor him in its observance.

Ellen G White

At every step of the way, when it is properly understood, the Sabbath is suggesting Christ and his work for us. At every point it is Christ and his power; it is the creative power pledged for our redemption. It is the sign of Christ to bless, to give rest, to make holy, to sanctify. It is the sign of Christ, the delight of the soul; it is the sign of Christ, the Holy One. It is the sign of Christ, whom we are to honor.

Ellen G White

All through the week we are to have the Sabbath in mind and be making preparation to keep it according to the commandment. We are not merely to observe the Sabbath as a legal matter. We are to understand its spiritual bearing upon all the transactions of life.

Ellen G White

We should jealously guard the edges of the Sabbath. Remember that every moment is consecrated, holy time.

Ellen G White

Before the Sabbath begins, the mind as well as the body should be withdrawn from worldly business.

Ellen G White

In order to keep the Sabbath holy, it is not necessary that we enclose ourselves in walls, shut away from the beautiful scenes of nature and from the free, invigorating air of heaven. We should in no case allow burdens and business transactions to divert our minds upon the Sabbath of the Lord, which He has sanctified. We should not allow our minds to dwell upon things of a worldly character even.

Ellen G White

The Sabbath was made for man, to be a blessing to him by calling his mind from secular labor to contemplate the goodness and glory of God.

Ellen G White

We observe the Sabbath best when we use it for both rest and worship.

Billy Graham

I don’t need a rest from God. What I need is a rest from everything that is not God.

Craig D Lounsbrough

A day of rest yields a hundred days of progress.

Adrienne Posey

Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

Walter Brueggemann

The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Mark 2:27

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like a summer without flowers...It is the joyous day of the whole week.

Henry Ward Beecher