Walter Brueggemann Quotes

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

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

Sunday is a day of rest.

It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

Sunday, I go to church; I take the day off. I rest.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

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

Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competition.

All my life, Sundays have been a working day.

A break in the middle of the season is good for everybody.

I feel like the off-season, for me, is not about getting on court and trying to improve or get better. I want to completely step away from the game and, like, really just enjoy my time at home.

It is very important to take a break and feel fresh, which we Indian cricketers don't get much of, so we are not used to it.

Sometimes I flashback and say, 'Wow I'm still doing this. Wow, it's crazy.' And I'm very thankful, but I think my body needs a rest.

There comes a time when you've toured a ton, and a time to be inspired again. Listen to awesome jazz records that are mellow with no words, and just sit there and read a book, or space out on your couch. And eventually, all that inspiration comes.

As much as we adore what we do and we're eternally grateful, everyone needs a break sometimes. Everyone needs a few days just to breathe.

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.

On Sundays, I just love to go to church and then relax the whole day!

It's good to reflect on life and take a step back and sit and relax and do something else.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.

If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice.

I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.

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.