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“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” —Jesus, Matthew 11.28-30
“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” —Jesus, Matthew 11.28-30, The Message
“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind’
(Deuteronomy 6.5). This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’(Leviticus 19.18). All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” —Jesus, Matthew 22.37-40
“The worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.” —Jesus, Mark 4.19
Sabbath (Hebrew Shabbat)
- Stop
- Rest
- Delight
- Worship
“Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all His work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creating that He had done. —Genesis 2.1-3
“When you go against the grain of the universe, you get splinters.” —H.H. Farmer
“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” —Exodus 20.8-11
“The Sabbath is not a burdensome requirement from some law-giving deity – ‘You ought, you’d better, you must’ – but rather a remembrance of a law that is firmly embedded in the fabric of nature. It is a reminder of how things really are, the rhythmic dance to which we unavoidably belong.” —Wayne Muller
“The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.” —Jesus, Mark 2.27
“People who Sabbath live all seven days differently.” —Walter Brueggemann