Quotes About Rest

I'm never happier than in the bed.

The rest-seeking procrastinators would generally rather not exert themselves at all, while the fun-task procrastinators enjoy being busy and active all the time but have a hard time starting things that are not so amusing.

I need a break from politics, that's for sure. This is the hardest job in America.

I hate taking breaks in my training. But I'm having to change that, and let my body heal.

For MLB players, sitting around aimlessly waiting to heal is never a good idea.

It will eventually be discovered that the more you sleep, the healthier you are. Which means you'll really be at your healthiest when you pass away.

I'm quite a restless holidaymaker - I can't lie down on the sand and don't like too much heat.

After a really hectic week, I hate going out on a Friday evening, so I'll always opt for a night at home.

I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that.

This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.

It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.

How kind is weariness sometimes! It is like the Father's hand laid a little heavy on the heart to make it still.

Or, if needing years to wake thee From thy slumbrous solitudes, Come, sleep-walking, and betake thee To the friendly, sleeping woods. Sweeter dreams are in the forest, Round thee storms would never rave; And when need of rest is sorest, Glide thou then into thy cave.

Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

Many a wrong, and it's curing song, many a road, and many an inn, Room to roam, but only one home, for all the world to win. George MacDonald, (Lilith)

The cessation of labor affords but the necessary occasion; makes it possible, as it were, for the occupant of an outlying station in the wilderness to return to his Father's house for fresh supplies…. The child-soul goes home at night, and returns in the morning to the labors of the school.

is it not better to complain if one but complain to God himself? Does he not then draw nigh to God with what truth is in him? And will he not then fare as Job, to whom God drew nigh in return, and set his heart at rest?

He has not yet learned that the day begins with sleep! said the woman, turning to her husband. Tell him he must rest before he can do anything!

No one who will not sleep can ever wake.

we shall never be able, I say, to rest in the bosom of the Father, till the fatherhood is fully revealed to us in the love of the brothers. For he cannot be our father save as he is their father; and if we do not see him and feel him as their father, we cannot know him as ours.

Her dark eyes looked as if they found repose there, so quietly did they rest on the face of the old man

Often, no doubt, it will appear otherwise, for the childlike child is easier to save than the other, and may come first. But the rejoicing in heaven is greatest over the sheep that has wandered the farthest—perhaps was born on the wild hill-side, and not in the fold at all. For such a prodigal, the elder brother in heaven prays thus— Lord, think about my poor brother more than about me, for I know thee, and am at rest in thee. I am with thee always.

And earth was given back to earth, to mingle with the rest of the stuff the great workman works withal.

Lord, think about my poor brother more than about me, for I know thee, and am at rest in thee. I am with thee always.