Sabbath Quotes

Sabbath Quote of the day

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

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.

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.

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.

Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath.

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.

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.

Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

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.

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.

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.

Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.

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.

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.

Everybody knows that Black Sabbath started everything and almost every single thing that people are playing today has already been done by Black Sabbath. They wrote every single good riff... ever.

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.

Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

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.

Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.

You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.

The Sabbath-day is the savings-bank of humanity.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath

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

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.

If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

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!

Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others.

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

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).

God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)

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.

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.

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

Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!

We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.