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“Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and writer whose works have had a profound impact on subsequent philosophy, literature, and thought. His ideas revolve around concepts such as the 'will to power', the 'Übermensch', and the 'eternal recurrence'. more

“Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the worry and tension that accompany our modern criterion of efficiency, from our efforts to be in control of our lives as if we were God, from our possessiveness and our enculturation, and, finally, from the humdrum and meaninglessness that result when life is pursued without the Lord at the center of it all.”

Ifs Needs Mean Life Is Results Effort Lord Worry Our Lives Modern Accomplish Cease Tension Productive Efficiency Criteria Pursued Accompany Sabbath Meaninglessness Possessiveness Humdrum

Author:Marva Dawn

“The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.”

Running Streams Shallow Neglected Sabbath

Book:The Miscellaneous Writings of the Revd. Matthew Henry: Consisting of Sermons, Tracts and Biographical Sketches of Eminent Christians and Ministers. To which is Added the Sermon Preached on the Author's Death

Source: The Miscellaneous Writings of the Revd. Matthew Henry: Consisting of Sermons, Tracts and Biographical Sketches of Eminent Christians and Ministers. To which is Added the Sermon Preached on the Author's Death

“A believer longs after God, to come into his presence, to feel his love, to feel near to him in secret, to feel in the crowd that he is nearer than all the creatures. Ah! dear brethren, have you ever tasted this blessedness? There is greater rest and solace to be found in the presence of God for one hour than in an eternity of the presence of man.”

Men Feels Found Hours Secret Greater Creatures Eternity Dear Crowds Believer His Love Solace Brethren Presence Of God One Hour Blessedness

Book:The Works of the Late Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne: Containing His Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, Songs of Zion, &c

Source: The Works of the Late Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne: Containing His Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, Songs of Zion, &c

“When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you. It tells you of its unreality and of the Reality of God. But when your mind is silent, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real and blazes transparently with the Reality of God.”

Mind Real Reality Speak Imagination Silence Silent Tongue Forests Unreality

Book:The Sign of Jonas

Source: The Sign of Jonas

“Without a Sabbath, no worship; without worship, no religion; and without religion, no permanent freedom.”

Worship Permanent Sabbath

Author:Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert

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