Quotes About Rest

Then they labour anxiously, when they overdo it, to the loss of their quiet and health: then distrustfully, when they doubt God's providence, thinking that their own labour is the cause of their thriving, as if it were in their own hands to thrive or not to thrive. Then they labour profanely, when they set themselves to work like brute beasts, never raising their thoughts to God, nor sanctifying their labour with daily prayer; when on the Lord's day they do unnecessary servile work

Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity; That I may run, rise, rest with thee.

Certainly 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.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

When I returned to Washington in January 1983, I felt that I should not try to spend the rest of my working life in the Senate. I didn't know exactly when, but I knew that at some point I would term-limit myself. I would leave while the people of Maine wanted me to stay rather than wait until they asked me to leave.

I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest." - Jon Snow

Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

Alyssa Arryn had seen her husband, her brothers, and all her children slain, and yet in life she had never shed a tear. So in death, the gods had decreed that she would know no rest until her weeping watered the black earth of the Vale, where the men she had loved were buried. Catelyn wondered how large a waterfall her own tears would make when she died.

I need to sleep, but fear to dream.

Sleep is good. Books are better.

Sleep is good," he said. "And books are better.

A fat man always sits comfortably, I am thinking, for he takes his pillow with him wherever he goes.

one more book, he had told himself, then i'll stop. one more folio, just one more. one more page then i'll go up and rest and get a bite to eat. But there was always another page after that one, and another after that, and another book waiting underneath the pile. "I'll just take a quick peek to see what this one is about", he'd think, and before he knew he would be halfway through it. Ladies and Gentlemen, SAMWELL TARLY IS ONE OF US!

A warrior who cannot sleep soon has no strength to fight.

In the field, he would sleep in the saddle oft as not, he claimed, so as to be well rested should he come upon a battle. Sun or storm, it made no matter. "A warrior who cannot sleep soon has no strength to fight,

England is not the best possible world but it is the best actual country, and a great rest after America.

Rzeczy drobne wydajÄ… siÄ™ nieistotne, ale to one zapewniajÄ… nam spokój.

They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.

It was a voice full of light and dark. Light not only as it glimmers, but also as it glares. Dark not only as it brings cold and fear, but also as it gives rest and shade.

Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest.

If we could learn how to balance rest against effort, calmness against strain, quiet against turmoil, we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life.

Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head.