The Sabbath: Significance and Application in Modern Christianity
The Sabbath: Significance and Application in Modern Christianity “A Sabbath well spent brings a week of content, and strength for the toils of tomorrow; but a Sabbath profaned, whatso’er may be gained, is a certain forerunner of sorrow.” Author Unknown “The Sabbath is the day on which we rest not for the sake of the body, but for the sake of the soul. Resting for the sake of the soul is a strange thing, for we are always in danger of worshiping our own tiredness.” G. K. Chesterton “Sabbath rest is an imitation of God and the most blessed of human ways of living. Setting apart Sabbath is an act of freedom from slavery, work, anxiety, and the feverish pursuits of gain and his own ambition.” Abraham Joshua Heschel “O day of rest! How beautiful, how fair, how welcome to the weary and the old! Day of the Lord! and truce to earthly care! Day of the Lord, as all our days should be.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Sabbath ...