The Sabbath

"Make the Sabbath an eternal monument of the knowledge and sanctification of God, both in the centre of your busy public life and in the peaceful retreat of your domestic hearth. For 6 days cultivate the earth and rule it....But the 7th is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God....Let [a man] therefore realize that the creator of old is the living God of today, [that He] watches every man and every human effort, to see how man uses and abuses the world the world loaned to him and the forces bestowed upon him, and that He is the sole architect to whom every man has to render an account of his week's labours."
(From an Israeli Tourist Brochure written by a rabbi).

"There is a unique pace to Sabbath. Routines are to stop; labour is to cease. Even the homemaker in the pious Jewish family is to refrainfrom cooking or menial tasks. Food is prepared before sabbath begins so that she also can enjoy the fruit of the special day fo rest. This is a far cry from the incredible, filled up, presurrized day many (evangelical) Christians tend to make of their days."
Gordon MacDonald: "Ordering Your Private World." page 184

"When the New Testament writers referred to the Sabbath they meant both the day when God rested from the work of Creation as well as Israel's deliverance from Egypt. This is what the Jewish people still mean by the Sabbath. In New Testament times Sundays replaced sabbaths. Even the Apostles Sundays had coem to mean a weekly commemoration of the resurrection. (This explains why fasting is never required on Sundays, not even during Lent, as every Sunday of the year is a commemoration of the Resurrection."
C.S. Lewis ed Hooper: The Business of Heaven pages 11-12