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Someone Once Said ... • Our great-grandparents called it the holy Sabbath. Our grandparents called it the Lord’s Day. Our parents called it Sunday. And we call it the weekend. -Anonymous • Blessed be to God for the day of rest and religious occupation wherein earthly things assume their true size.-British statesman William Wilberforce, in his journal, about his Sundays2 • With peaceful Sundays, the strings would never have snapped as they did from overtension. -William Wilberforce, in his journal, about two political friends who committed suicide3 • If all our days are to be holy, then we must keep the Lord’s day holy.-Stephen Winward 1 V.

Raymond Edman, The Disciples of Life (Minneapolis: World Wide Publications, 1948), 16. 2 Gordon MacDonald, Ordering Your Private World (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1985), 162. J MacDonald, Ordering Your Private World, 162.

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The point

A collection of quotations tracing how the sacredness of Sunday has faded across generations, from Sabbath to mere weekend.

Scripture
Audience
Adults
Tone
Reflective · Convicting
To tell aloud
under a minute · 139 words

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