Sabbath Quotes - Page 9

• The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos ... The pre-Christian God Mithras ... had his birthday celebrated on December 25 ... Even Christianity's weekly holy day was stolen from the pagans ... Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagans' veneration of the day of the sun ... To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god's weekly tribute- Sunday.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Morning, Sunday

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• This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Work, Night

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Black, Bass, Studios

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• 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

  Style, Black, Horizon

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• I started getting seriously into music when I was a kid. 1978 was my big year. It just hit home. That was before real metal. There was Black Sabbath and that kind of stuff, but the real underground, hard stuff wasn't even around yet. It was cool to watch that happen and latch onto the next edge of things every time that progression happened.

  Chris Reifert

  Real, Kids, Home

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

  Rob Sheffield

  Flower, Night, Urban Legends

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• 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

  Voice, Guitar, Black

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• I would advise anyone who is at the start of a rest ritual like the Sabbath, to take it slowly and grow incrementally into it. Recognize that it will be hard at first. It's a discipline but then it is a true and deep joy.

  Erica Brown

  Discipline, Joy, Firsts

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition. All laws defining and punishing blasphemy - making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Men, Law

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.312, Library of Alexandria

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• I was sick of fast, aggressive music; I felt like I needed to make a poppy thing. But, right now, I feel like I need to make a Hawkwind/Sabbath record. It gets boring if you just do the same thing all the time.

  Ty Segall

  Sick, Poppies, Needs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went through my Black Sabbath phase before I even started playing guitar.

  James Hetfield

  Moving, Guitar, Black

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

  David Pajo

  Iron, Black, Band

  "Dead Child". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• 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

  God, Sitting, Firsts

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.99

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• I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Night, Locomotives

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• Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

  Eddie Trunk

  Black, Opinion, Heavy Metal

  "Eddie Trunk Slams The Grammy’s: 'They Just Have No Clue At All When It Comes To Rock And Heavy Metal'". Interview with Ben Smith, eddietrunk.com. January 27, 2014.

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• 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

  Challenges, Albums, Would Be

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• Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come again. You know not when your last Sabbath with your people may come. Speak for eternity. Above all things, cultivate your own spirit. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Brother, Heart, Opportunity

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.86

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• Jesus did not call upon people to repent, or fast, or observe the sabbath. He did not threaten with hell or promise heaven.

  Robert W. Funk

  Jesus, People, Heaven

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• An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

  C. S. Lewis

  Clothes, Ulster, Weekdays

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest in bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple. Bands who had different time signatures etc and for whatever reason, we morphed into Corrosion of Conformity. It's been about thirty years now.

  Reed Mullin

  Years, Play, Purple

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fun, Drug, Black

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV

  Wendell Berry

  Light, Tree, Answers

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• 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

  Kids, Black, Rolling

  "Chris Cornell: 'As a performer, I'm able to do what I want'" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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• Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes a struggle so lonely and grim that even Hillary Clinton has admitted "it takes a village".

  David James Duncan

  Spiritual, Lonely, Couple

  David James Duncan (2007). “God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right”, p.99, Triad Institute, Inc.

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• 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

  Weekdays, Inspired

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.34, Macmillan

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