“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 112 (9 July 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Source: Eritrean Archbishop describes new door of peace as a miracle https://www.vaticannews.va/en/africa/news/2018-06/eritrean-archbishop-describes-new-door-of-peace-as-a-miracle.html (27 June 2018)
“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 112 (9 July 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
“He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest.”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet
Source: Stop All The Clocks
Wilkie Collins book Armadale
Armadale - Vol. II [Collier, 1886] ( p. 130 https://books.google.com/books?id=v7sBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA130) <br class="br">Also in Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England: From Dickens to Eliot by Carolyn Oulton [Springer, 2002, ISBN 0-230-50464-7] ( p. 136 https://books.google.com/books?id=abuADAAAQBAJ&pg=PA136)
Gilbert Garcera (1959) Roman Catholic archbishop
Source: Philippine archbishop urges prayers, aid amid volcano eruption https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2020-01/philippines-volcano-eruption-archbishop-gracera-lipa-appeal.html (13 January 2020)
Brigham Young (1801–1877) Latter Day Saint movement leader
Journal of Discourses 3:222 (March 2, 1856)
1850s
“Since a week ago last Saturday, we can no longer expect them to defend the law of God.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
These sects will work out the very logic of their ways, and in 50 or 100 years there will be only the Catholic Church and paganism. We will be left to fight the battle alone, and we will." <br class="br">Quoted in The Birth Control Review, May 1931, volume XV, no. 5., pp. 143-144. Reaction to the report of the Federal Council of Churches in America which, in March 1931, "endorsed 'the careful and restrained use of contraceptives by married people,' while at the same time conceding that 'serious evils, such as extramarital sex relations, may be increased by general knowledge of contraceptives.'" http://lifedynamics.com/app/uploads/2015/09/1931-05-May.pdf https://www.google.com/search?q=Church+and+paganism.+We+will+be+left+to+fight+the+battle+alone%2C+and+we+will&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs#channel=rcs&tbm=bks&q=%22Since+a+week+ago+last+Saturday%2C+we+can+no+longer+expect+them+to+defend%22+
Manal al-Sharif (1979) Saudi Arabian activist
About lifting of the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia. As quoted in Saudi women 'still enslaved', says activist as driving ban ends http://news.trust.org/item/20180622172634-f882k/ (22 June 2018) by Heba Kanso, Thomson Reuters Foundation.