Yair Lapid Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death.

It is not enough for each individual to have one day of rest each week. Everyone should have the same day. My ability to go shopping on Shabbat is the inability of someone else to rest on the same day.

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, 'What sign do I want to give to God?' That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

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.

There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

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

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it.

Islam teaches us to respect all the prophets of God Almighty and degradation of any prophet is tantamount to defamation of the rest.

I am a believer in liberty. That is my religion — to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right — because it is his right — but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge — in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.

I try to keep a Sabbath perspective.

A world without a proper day of rest is like a landscape without hedgerows, trees, or landmarks: a howling, featureless wilderness in which we incessantly seek pleasure because we cannot find happiness.

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.