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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. -- Alice Walker
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
If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun. -- Lars Ulrich
E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me. -- Alexander Pope
Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace. -- Ozzy Osbourne
I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. -- Abraham Lincoln
The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry. -- Israel Shenker
I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was so much better fun for me, and everybody. -- Ozzy Osbourne
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week. -- Henry Ward Beecher
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. -- Thomas de Quincey
I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath. -- John Harvey Kellogg
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. -- Anita Diament
You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support. -- Ovadia Yosef
The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath. -- Zakk Wylde
Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
I'm Reconstructionist; I don't serve the Sabbath, but I go to synagogue. -- Jessica Hecht
There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi. -- Zakk Wylde
See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep. -- Alexander Pope
I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo. -- Peter Steele
Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship. -- James E. Faust
Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath. -- Jello Biafra
I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death. -- Alan Furst
I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in. -- Geezer Butler
How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song. -- James Grahame
I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live. -- Glenn Hughes
Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded. -- Maria Jane McIntosh
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. -- Geezer Butler
If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio. -- Chris Cornell
There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week. -- Charles Dickens
The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal, glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope; Blessings are plentiful and rife. More plentiful than hope. -- George Herbert
Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above Brightens thy presence like a smile of love, Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea, The roughest waves of human destiny Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou. -- Matthew Arnold
O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable. -- William Wilberforce
Bright shadows of true rest! some shoots of bliss; Heaven once a week; The next world's gladness prepossest in this; A day to seek; Eternity in time; the steps by which We climb above all ages: lamps that light Man through his heap of dark days; and the rich And full redemption of the whole week's flight. -- Henry Vaughan
The hushed winds their Sabbath keep. -- William C. Bryant
The Sabbath-day is the savings-bank of humanity. -- Arthur Frederick Saunders
I never try and sound like Sabbath. -- Geezer Butler
I never try and sound like Sabbath -- Geezer Butler
Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion. -- Eddie Trunk
Thank God for the solitude of the Sabbath. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started -- Geezer Butler
I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started. -- Geezer Butler
Behold congenial Autumn comes, the Sabbath of the Year. -- John Logan
You will find rest on Sabbath day for your soul. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others. -- Russell M. Nelson
The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath. -- William Blaikie
Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity. -- Walter Brueggemann
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God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11) -- Charles R. Swindoll
Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life. -- Mark Buchanan
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week. -- Chaim Potok
Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. -- Augustus William Hare
Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms. -- Walter Brueggemann
I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC. -- Paul Dano
Without a Sabbath, no worship; without worship, no religion; and without religion, no permanent freedom. -- Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert
I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock. -- Stone Gossard
Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything. -- Marianne Williamson
On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings. -- Rob Bell
The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured. Blessed are you who honour this day. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him. -- Lauren F. Winner
Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back. -- John Petrucci
God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath. -- John Donne
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men. -- James M. Barrie
In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show. -- Ozzy Osbourne
Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading -- Joseph Hertz
A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on. -- Chic Murray
Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul. -- John Flavel
Our Sabbath practices reveal which Trinity we truly worship: Father, Son, and Spirit... or me, myself, and I. -- Mark Hart
You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy. -- Russell M. Nelson
The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship. -- David K. Bernard
Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath -- Jello Biafra
When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands. -- David Pajo
An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath. -- C. S. Lewis
The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away and the paradise which is yet to come. -- Andrew Wylie
The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected. -- Matthew Henry
No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore. -- Thurston Moore
Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode. -- John Burroughs
Sabbath on Saturday in favor of The Lord's Day (Sunday). (Mag 9.1), rejected Judaizing (Mag 10.3), first use of term Christianity (Mag 10). -- Josephus
Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams -- Paul C. Nagel
I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in -- Geezer Butler
Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs . -- Aldo Leopold
Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath. -- John Thorn
The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe? -- Thomas Carlyle
Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first. -- Rob Zombie
Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it. -- Mark Twain
During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons. -- Geezer Butler
Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing. -- Eugene H. Peterson
And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy. -- Samuel Rogers
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. -- Rachel Trachtenburg
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. -- Emily Dickinson
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. -- William Lloyd Garrison
Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death. -- Geezer Butler
Faith in God engenders a love for the Sabbath; faith in the Sabbath engenders a love for God. A sacred Sabbath truly is a delight. -- Russell M. Nelson
To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier. -- Geezer Butler
The rest of the guys in Sabbath became boring old farts, and there I was, this crazy guy, still into wrecking hotel rooms and having parties. -- Ozzy Osbourne
To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge. -- Geezer Butler
That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. -- Chad Smith
If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio, -- Chris Cornell
Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center. -- Wayne Muller
There's one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it's no longer Black Sabbath. -- Henry Rollins
I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them -- Dave Grohl
The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion. -- Charles Lamb
It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking. -- Billy Corgan
Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old. -- Nikki Sixx
Pamphlets on Sabbath writing are in request here I have been applied to for them by several of the old Methodists knowing that I had them to sell before. -- John Hawley
I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle. -- Ozzy Osbourne
The Muslims observe their Sabbath on Friday, the Jews observe on Saturday, and the Christians on Sunday. By the time Monday rolls around God is completely f***in' worn out. -- George Carlin
Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine. -- Henry David Thoreau
Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound. -- Henry Rollins
Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen. -- Jonathan Sacks
It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance. -- Billy Corgan
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. -- Gordon B. Hinckley

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