The command to celebrate the Sabbath,...

The command to celebrate the Sabbath, and therefore to cease and abstain from all our own knowledge, work and volition, even from all our arbitrary surrenders and inactivity, from all arbitrary quiescence and resting – this command claims from man that which on the basis of his self-understanding he can understand only as a sacrifice of his human nature and existence, and against which he can really only rebel as life rebels against death.…It demands that he know himself only in his faith in God, that he will and work and express himself only in this imposed and not selected renunciation,…