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Quotes About Rest

Taking time to rest, renew, and refresh yourself isn't wasted time. Recharge. Choose what energizes you.
~ Melody Beattie
Sometimes it's good to take a break. Just as long as you remember it's only a break.
~ Melody Carlson
It's times like these when we have to think on what is true...really meditate on it. We have a Savior who loves us. We have a Savior who gave His blood for us. And we can rest knowing, I mean really knowing that His Word is true. He will work all things together for those who love Him. We may not see it now, but eventually God will be glorified through all of this.
~ Melody Carlson
Learn the wisdom of the Hound. Always rest, eat, and play when you can, because the universe conspires to keep you from doing any of these things nearly as often as you would like.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Always rest, eat, and play when you can, because the universe conspires to keep you from doing any of these things nearly as often as you would like.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Good bed, deep sleep, big breakfast, and one could outpace anything except a Night Person. Their ways were mysterious and full of cats.
~ Mercedes Lackey
No matter what tears were shed or what trials were faced, some things would stay the same. There would always be day and night, stars and sky, hope and rest. There would always be love, always compassion, and there would always be Skandranon. And forever, in the hearts of all the Clans, there would be Urtho—and for his memory, a moment of silence.
~ Mercedes Lackey
There was nothing we could do to stop whatever was going on, and there was no point in trying to imagine what was being done. I come from farm folk, Herald. We know when there's nothing to be done you might as well get some sleep, because when there is something to be done you're going to wish you'd had some.
~ Mercedes Lackey
when there's nothing to be done you might as well get some sleep, because when there is something to be done you're going to wish you'd had some." As
~ Mercedes Lackey
I've got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
~ Beatrice Sparks
I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.
~ Bel Kaufman
here in this untouched wood a dirge a lamentation for earth to live again earth that is all at once a grave a resting place a bed of new beginning
~ bell hooks
When Poemen was asked how he dealt with any brother who fell asleep during public prayer, he replied, 'I put his head upon my knees and help him to rest.
~ Benedicta Ward
All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room. —Blaise Pascal
~ Benjamin Graham
were in the camp, given a day's rest after leading the last failed assault. Will Skeat hated failure.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.
~ Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
The modern world unlearned us how to enjoy leisure time, making us think we need to be productive in order to be worthy.
~ Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
~ Bertrand Russell
Ask about the ancient paths: Which is the way to what is good? Then take it and find rest for yourselves. Jeremiah 6:16
~ Beth Moore
Nothing haunts us more than our search for, finally, a sense of place. As it turns out, true belonging is found only in the sovereign palm of God. There alone we find our place, even amid the seasons of moving, planting, uprooting, and replanting. It's only when we find our place in Him that we find rest. David said it with beautiful simplicity: I am at rest in God alone. PSALM 62:1, CSB
~ Beth Moore
You are to labor six days and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. Exodus 20:9–10
~ Beth Moore
Hush, little baby, don't you cry Daddy fixes all things by and by. Cease your striving, rest your eyes You're my joy and you're my prize.
~ Beth Moore
only when we find our place in Him that we find rest. David said it with beautiful simplicity: I am at rest in God alone. PSALM 62:1, CSB Though the path to this discovery is often painful, the discovery itself can be a relief—and not only to us. It gives us space to spread out and grow, and it relieves our other loves of a burden too big to carry. And there we can bear mysterious fruit. [
~ Beth Moore
Therefore, while the promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear so that none of you should miss it. Hebrews 4:1
~ Beth Moore