Sabbath Quotes

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. (Ambrose Bierce)
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. View quote
Alice Walker
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. View quote
Emily Dickinson
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. View quote
Anita Diament
I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band. View quote
Greg Ginn
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. View quote
Kip Winger
The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath. View quote
Jesus Christ
Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it. View quote
Geezer Butler
The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support. View quote
Ovadia Yosef
Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading. (Joseph H. Hertz)
He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it. View quote
Mark Twain
I like The Beatles and I like The Kinks and I like The Rolling Stones and I like Led Zeppelin and I like Black Sabbath. View quote
Rachel Trachtenburg
Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode. View quote
John Burroughs
Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs . View quote
Aldo Leopold
Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it. View quote
Tony Iommi
For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not. View quote
Tony Iommi
I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it. View quote
Tony Iommi
I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization. View quote
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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. View quote
Jason Newsted
I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath. (John Harvey Kellogg)
Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers. View quote
Charles Buck
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life. View quote
Eugene H. Peterson
I was Jewish, through and through, although in our house that didn't mean a whole lot. We never went to synagogue. I never had a Bar Mitzvah. We didn't keep kosher or observe the Sabbath. In fact, I'm not so sure I would have known what the Sabbath looked like if it passed me on the street, so how could I observe it? View quote
Gilbert Gottfried
I'm Reconstructionist; I don't serve the Sabbath, but I go to synagogue. View quote
Jessica Hecht