Quotes about Sabbath

Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and communing with the Lord on the Sabbath day.

Our people believed every creature had a spark—nitzotz—that which was holy, and we were to show kindness and compassion to all beings, what we called baal chayyim. All animals praise God, as we do, with their songs and their voices. In midwinter, we dedicated a Sabbath to the birds, to offer our gratitude and acknowledge that it is their songs that have taught mankind how to chant and praise the glory of our Creator.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:But the seventh day… thou shalt not do any work.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made.

And on the seventh day God finished His work … and He rested … from all His work which He had done" (Genesis 2:2). Thus, work itself is something divine, something God Himself does. So

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no sunday, it becomes an orphan.

We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb "rest," as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Sabbath leaks. It spills over. It changes how you live the other six days. When you intentionally slow down, you instantly see how fast you've been moving the rest of the time.