Charles Buck Quotes

You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected.

E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable.

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

People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.

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

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.

This Epistle, is therefore a legacy to the Christians of all ages.

Sunday is a day of rest.

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.

If we do not need to worship God six days in the week why do we need to worship him on the seventh?

we admonish that men keep Sunday's festival with all their might, and observe it from Saturday's noon to Monday's dawning; and no man be so bold that he either go to market or seek any court on that holy day

In mediaeval times, the Sunday was a day of recreation, of fairs, Morris-dances, mystery plays, &c., and not of enforced idleness and gloom. The Puritan movement which originated at the end of the sixteenth century … till the rebellion which cost Charles I his head, embodied in its programme a strong antagonism to the old English Sunday, an antagonism which was accentuated, by the action of the opposite party who took an equally emphatic stand upon the Sunday of tradition …. a “day of rest” was ratified by a Puritan Parliament in the well-known Act of Charles II. Thenceforward the English Sunday became the dreary day it is now.

I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.

There is clearly a Christian New Testament tradition that warns against praying loudly in the front of the temple where everyone can see you.

If you are a writer, Saturday and Sunday don't mean anything.

I try not to be cruel to people. I know there's a karma, and I'm constantly thinking of my blessings. I live and die by being a Baptist. If I can't go to church on a Sunday, I'll get a tape by the Clark Sisters and slide it in for the day.

It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.

Sunday comes after Saturday? Weird.

When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".

The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.

If you can't be bothered to work on Saturday, don't bother to come in on Sunday.

Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.

It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.