24/6 Quotes

“Rest shows us who God is. He has restraint. Restraint is refraining from doing everything that one has the power to do. We must never mistake God's restraint for weakness. The opposite is true. God shows restraint; therefore, restraint is holy.”
― Matthew Sleeth, 24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life

“No one ever found the Lord on the day they won the lottery. Faith is more likely to blossom on the day we lose our job.”
― Matthew Sleeth, 24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life

“Sabbath is a time to transition from human doings to human beings.”
― Matthew Sleeth, 24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life

“We cannot turn back the hands of time. Our 24/7 world is not going to change. Life will only get more intense. New communication tools, nanotechnology, and human engineering will increase the number of tasks an individual can do simultaneously. We will look back with nostalgia at the 24/7 world once these “advances” make 48/7 a reality. If we wish to have a weekly day of rest, it will no longer happen as a societal default. It will happen only as a result of a conscious choice.”
― Matthew Sleeth, 24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life

“As we keep or break the Sabbath day, we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. Abraham Lincoln”
― Matthew Sleeth, 24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life

“Subtracting a day of rest each week has had a profound effect on our lives. How could it not? One day a week adds up. Fifty-two days a year times an average life span is equal to more than eleven years. Take away eleven years of anything in a lifetime, and there will be a change. This is a law of the universe: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Subtract over a decade of sleep, work, or education, and the entire character of one’s existence is altered. Multiply eleven years times a third of a billion Americans, and you are looking for a lost continent of time. Unfortunately, in our society, it’s not Monday that got mislaid; it’s our Sabbath, our day of rest. If there is to be any hope for recovering the Sabbath, we must first admit that something is missing. Despite reassurances of convenience, safety, and choice, America has been conned.”
― Matthew Sleeth, 24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life

“As we know from Paul’s writings, early Christians did not have it easy. Monotheistic Jews stoned them, and polytheistic pagans accused them of not getting stoned. They were used as fuel in the lamps at Nero’s parties. Others were served up as lion food in the Coliseum. Romans discriminated against Christians when they hired, and they wouldn’t approve their mortgages. Yet Christianity grew.”
― Matthew Sleeth, 24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life

“The bow cannot be always bent without fear of breaking. Repose is as needful to the mind as sleep to the body. . . . Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength. . . . It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. Charles Spurgeon”
― Matthew Sleeth, 24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life

“Resting one day a week by any name is holy—the point is to stop on that day and look for God.”
― Matthew Sleeth, 24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life

“Up to this point, everything has been created out of nothing, but on the morning of the seventh day, God makes nothing out of something. Rest is brought into being.”
― Matthew Sleeth, 24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life

“Take time to be holy, speak oft with thy Lord; Abide in Him always, and feed on His Word. Make friends of God’s children; help those who are weak, Forgetting in nothing His blessing to seek. Take time to be holy, the world rushes on; Spend much time in secret with Jesus alone. By looking to Jesus, like Him thou shalt be; Thy friends in thy conduct His likeness shall see. Take time to be holy, let Him be thy guide; And run not before Him whatever betide. In joy or in sorrow still follow thy Lord, And, looking to Jesus, still trust in His Word. Take time to be holy, be calm in thy soul; Each thought and each motive beneath His control. Thus led by His Spirit to fountains of love, Thou soon shalt be fitted for service above. William D. Longstaff”
― Matthew Sleeth, 24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life