Sabbath Keeping - Keep It Holy

"Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy."

~ Exodus 20:8 ~

"Is it not interesting that the one Commandment

 that begins with 'remember' is the one

Commandment mainstream Christianity

has forgotten?"

~ unknown ~

"I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago, when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day of personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession." ~ Russell M. Nelson ~ 

"Keeping the Sabbath day holy is 

much more than just physical rest. 

It involves spiritual renewal and worship." 

~ James E. Faust ~ 

"If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation as not as something to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame attentiveness to your life."
~ Eugene H. Peterson ~

"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, 

but making it holy sure takes the rest of the week. 

~ Alice Walker ~ 

"On Sabbath, the work is never done but we are invited to set it aside for the moment to dwell in the presence of God, to experience the sacred right in the middle of the secular." ~ Terri Lynn Underwood ~

"The Sabbath isn't about resting perfectly;

it's about resting in the One who is perfect."

~ Shelly Miller ~ 

"The Sabbath provides wonderful opportunities to strengthen family ties."
~ Russell M. Nelson ~

"Keeping the Sabbath day holy is a refuge from the storms of this life."
~ Quentin L. Cook ~

"The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart." ~ Anita Diament ~

"Sabbath is God's metronome, marking out a weekly rhythm of rest and renewal. It is our reference point for knowing how to plan and live our lives. Without the Sabbath, our lives are a jumbled mess of individual events; with Sabbath, they can be a beautiful balance of labor and rest." ~ Kerri Weems ~ 

"The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment."
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin ~

"Who turns down a mini vacation every six days?"

~ Sandra ~

"...But they rested on the Sabbath 

in obedience to the commandment."

~ Luke 23:56 ~