Quotes of the day
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like a summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the joyous day of the whole week. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Yet in the midst of time there may be a practical symbol of the eternal; there may be
the weekly Sabbath, type of heaven. There may be six days of consecrated work,
followed by one of consecrated rest. And in this pulsing of the weeks there may be a
moving image of eternity. A man can not work and rest at the same time; he is not
God. But he can consecrate his work, and from the Sabbath he may renew the eternal
life which shall help him to give some sabbatic quality to the work days. Time is itself
sacred -- not in the magical sense, not in the polytheistic sense -- but in the sense that
it can be consecrated. As the years go by, the pressure of work will increase, until men
are strained and worn by even their consecrated labors. Increasingly then there will be
the need of the Sabbath. (A. H. Lewis)
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." (G. K. Chesterton)