Quotes About Rest

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

We can't live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully!

Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then.

Sleep helps you win at life.

Abide in Jesus, the sinless One - which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God's will and rest in His strength. This is what brings the power that does not commit sin.

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.

Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.

I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe.

Life is a vacation God gives to you!

It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.

Peace, perfect peace, by thronging duties pressed? To do the will of Jesus, this is rest.

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

On Sleep's soft lap the head without a crown Forgot the gilded trouble it had worn

Whatever you do, please don't think of sleep as wasted time, an indulgence, or a generous reservoir from which you can steal time for work. Do what your brain and body beg you to do: get enough sleep.

Exchange the burden of the world, for the peace of God.

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!

The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.

Dark hills at evening in the west, Where sunset hovers like a sound Of golden horns that sang to rest Old bones of warriors underground, Far now from all the bannered ways Where flash the legions of the sun, You fade--as if the last of days Were fading, and all wars were done.

Daily we are to learn of Him who is meek and lowly in heart, and find rest unto our souls. It is in obeying the word of God that peace and rest come in. O, what fragrance might be brought into the daily life if all were to follow simply and completely the teachings of the word of God, which is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path! Like the rays of the sun in heaven, which brighten the earth, so are the commandments of God exceeding broad.

When the workers, whose only pleasure was sleeping, crawled into their beds, they slumbered like cattle.

Yet another form of rest, perhaps the most essential, is "transcendence" – rising above it all, usually in the form of meditation, contemplation, or prayer. At least some of your transcendent time should be aimed at taking you out of all ordinary thinking, into pure consciousness, pure being, pure unity, or oneness with God.

When I'm exhausted, I need sleep. Even when I seem totally wide awake. A regular schedule and a calm routine before bed are important to me. Otherwise, I will lie awake in bed all stirred up for hours. I need a lot of time in bed, even if I'm lying awake. I may need it in the middle of the day, too. Please let me have it.