QUOTES ABOUT NOT STUDYING SCHOOL WORK ON THE SABBATH:
James E. Faust: (Ensign, November 1991, p. 33-35)
"The Lord's Day"
"I would counsel
all students, if they can, to arrange their schedules so that
they do not study on the Sabbath. If students and other seekers
after truth will
do this, their minds will be quickened and the infinite Spirit will
lead them to the
verities they wish to learn. This is because God has hallowed his
day and blessed
it as a perpetual covenant of faithfulness."
(See Ex. 31:16.)
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KEEPING THE SABBATH DAY HOLY, by Ezra Taft Benson, Ensign, May, 1971 p. 4
"Students should study their school subjects
during the week and keep the
Sabbath sacred."
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"For those who do homework on Sunday, the Sabbath has simply become
a
playground for procrastinators."
Neal A. Maxwell
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A seminary teacher sent the following e-mail to the Seminary list:
When Elder Eyring came to our home for a stake conference in '92
I remember
him telling our high school children that at Harvard he was very
involved in
Church callings and did not study on the Sabbath. At that
dinner table
setting he promised that they would be blessed. as he had been,
by observing
the Sabbath. He went on to recount how he was among and competing
with others
who were far more gifted academically, but he knew he had been blessed.
Marion Johnstun
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President N. Eldon Tanner:
"You want very much to pass your courses, don't you? If you
will work hard on your
studies during the week, live the principles of the gospel and attend
to your Church
duties on Sunday, I promise you that you will graduate from university.
And what is
more important, I promise you that you will be a better and happier
person than if you
don't attend Church."
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“I
hope students will use the Sabbath for studying only as an emergency. …
I believe that generally, with careful organization of time through the
week, most studying can be done on weekdays, leaving the Sabbath for worship.
… There might be times when one would feel forced to study, when he might
feel that it was an ox in the mire. I am expressing only my personal
opinions on this matter, but since we are talking to students, it would
be my hope that your studying could be done in the season thereof and not
as a cramming process just before you go on Monday mornings”.
(Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, 227, 229)