To all who receive the Sabbath as a sign of Christ's creative and redeeming power, it will be a delight. Seeing Christ in it, they delight themselves in Him. {DA 289.1}

The Sabbath points them to the works of creation as an evidence of His mighty power in redemption. While it calls to mind the lost peace of Eden, it tells of peace restored through the Saviour. {DA 289.1}

It was the presence of Christ in the day that was the special blessing of the day. It is the presence of Christ in the Sabbath that makes it a Sabbath day, a rest day, that is, spiritual rest. {CAS 17.1}

But the seal of the living God is placed upon those who conscientiously keep the Sabbath of the Lord. {RH 07/13/1897}

God made the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th, sanctifying this day, and setting it apart from all others as holy to Himself, to be observed by His people throughout their generations. {LDE 123.2}

God never intended that the Sabbath should be a burden to any one, but rather a blessing; and He will now make it such to all who honor Him in its observance. {CAS 21.2}

When the Sabbath comes, we are instructed to call out to it, to cry to it as it comes, “A delight!” Why?-Because He in whom the Lord did delight, the delight of the Lord, the delight of the soul, is in the Sabbath. {CAS 22.1}

The Sabbath was a memorial of the fact that God in Christ rested from his work. The Sabbath is the sign to the Christian that he has rested from his work, and that the power of God is working in him “both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” {CAS 15.3}

The observance of the Sabbath is the sign between God and His people. Let us not be ashamed to bear the sign that distinguishes us from the world. {7T 105.1}

At every step of the way, when it is properly understood, the Sabbath is suggesting Christ and his work for us. At every point it is Christ and his power; it is the creative power pledged for our redemption.  {CAS 22.2}

As the Sabbath suggests at every point, Christ as Creator, as Redeemer, as Saviour, and as we are to honor the Son even as we honor the Father, therefore it is impossible that one should honor Christ when he knowingly dishonors Christ’s day.  {CAS 22.2}

In order that men might not forget the true God, Jehovah gave them a memorial of His love and power - The Sabbath. He says: "Verily My Sabbaths ye shall keep; for it is a sign between Me and you." Exodus 31:13. {7T 109.2}

The Sabbath always has been, & always will be, a sign of the power of God manifested through Christ. The reason given in the commandment for setting apart the 7th day as the Sabbath, is that “in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, ... and rested the seventh day.” {CAS 23.2}

The Sabbath day, therefore, is a sign of creative power. This sign of creative power always calls our attention to the One who made the heaven and the earth. {CAS 23.2}

“Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” This is the message written in nature, which the Sabbath is appointed to keep in memory.  {DA 282.3}

It is true that if the Sabbath had always been kept, there never would have been any false religion or idolatry; for the minds of men would have been constantly kept upon the true God, the Creator of the heaven and the earth, as revealed in Jesus Christ. {CAS 23.2}

We have already learned that the Sabbath rest is a spiritual rest, and it is therefore impossible for one to keep the Sabbath unless Christ, whose presence gives rest, dwells in his heart by faith. {CAS 25.2}

The true Sabbath is a sign to every Christian of the creative power that has thus wrought for his deliverance, and which is to uphold him through all his varied experiences, as he journeys toward the eternal kingdom. {CAS 25.2}

As the Israelites were enabled to keep the Sabbath after they were brought out of Egypt, so the Christian, who has been delivered from the bondage of sin, can enjoy the spiritual rest, which is the true idea of Sabbath-keeping. {CAS 25.2}

When the foundations of the earth were laid, then was also laid the foundation of the Sabbath. {CET 86.1}