Sabbath Day

Famous quotes containing the words sabbath day, sabbath and/or day:

    “Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 5:15.

    See Exodus 22:8 for a different version of this fourth commandment.

    “Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
    I keep it staying at home,”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in Education.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)