Day Of Rest Quotes

• Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

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• Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

  Etty Hillesum

  Appreciation, Prayer, Stress

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.305, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Revolution for the Hell of It (1968).

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• Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.

  Terry Pratchett

  Good Morning, Beauty, Live Life

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• The first day of the rest of my life.

  Lee Child

  Good Morning, Beauty, Live Life

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.633, Delacorte Press

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• Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Sunday, Loafing

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• Shabbat is a day of rest, of mental scrutiny and of balance. Without it the workdays are insipid.

  Hayim Nahman Bialik

  Balance, Scrutiny, Insipid

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• I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you might die.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Naps, Three

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Lord

  Geraldine Brooks (2011). “Caleb's Crossing: A Novel”, p.74, Penguin

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• Sunday is a day of rest.

  Mark Morris

  Sunday

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• Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.

  Walter Benjamin

  Memories, Book, Sunday

  Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings, Rodney Livingstone (2005). “Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings”, p.287, Harvard University Press

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• The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.

  David K. Bernard

  Law, Oneness, People

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• As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of toil. It ensures the necessary vacation in those earthly and turbulent anxieties and affections, which would otherwise become inordinate and morbid. It brings around a season of periodical neatness and decency, when the soil of weekly labour is laid aside, and men meet each other amidst the decencies of the sanctuary, and renew their social affections. But above all, a Sabbath (one day of rest in seven) is necessary for man's moral and religious interests.

  Robert Dabney

  Religious, War, Son

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• If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Sunday, Should Have, People

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• I am no preacher of the old legal Sabbath. I am a preacher of the gospel. The Sabbath of the Jew is to him a task; the Lord's Day of the Christian, the first day of the week, is to him a joy, a day of rest, of peace, and of thanksgiving. And if you Christian men can earnestly drive away all distractions, so that you can really rest today, it will be good for your bodies, good for your souls, good mentally, good spiritually, good temporally, and good eternally.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Joy

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• My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on Monday morning, because the Sabbath was a day of rest--a practice that made my paternal grandfather, the village atheist, as mad as fire. Nevertheless, he willed five quid to the minister, just to be on the safe side.

  Angela Carter

  Monday, Morning, Atheist

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms (Watts'), of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!

  Lewis Carroll

  Friday, Morning, Children

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• In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.

  Betty MacDonald

  Country, Sunday, Guilty

  BETTY MACDONALD (1945). “THE EGG AND I”

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• Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.

  James P. Hoffa

  Labor Day, Hardworking, Happy Labor Day

  "Weary U.S. Workers Are Still Experiencing Hard Times" by James P. Hoffa, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2014.

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