Quotes About Rest

People to whom a terrible thing has never happened trust fate, the notion that what's meant to be, will be. The rest of us know better.

When the field of vision has been unified, the inner being comes to rest, and that inner peaceableness flows into the outer world is harmony and compassion.

Life and rest are found in having a relationship with the living God, not in keeping a set of man-made rules.

curled up, closed his eyes, and marched himself off, as if sleep were an actual place, like home, like the kitchen—a place a mouse could go to.

He fell into sleep then, as a body weighted with stones and wrapped in winding sheets falls into deep water.

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.

For each time we lie down to sleep we have within us a body of death which dies with the day that is spent.

Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest, Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next, Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it.

Have you ever thought how much is in the negative quality of nature—the negative—the simply loafing, doing nothing, worrying about nothing, living out of doors and getting fresh air, plenty of sleep—letting everything else take care of itself?

is that the President? Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep

Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.

nighttime is kind on the eyes.

When a woman forgets that she's supposed to be pretty and on display she looks like that murdered girl did, just somebody who's tired and needs to rest.

He once told me that they'd have to wake him for his execution because "the Mouse ain't gonna miss his rest.

Sleep, like other earthly blessings, is niggard of its favours when most courted.

For Christianity begins not with a big do, but with a big done.

Estamos sentados eternamente em Cristo para poder andar continuamente diante dos homens. Se abandonamos por um instante nosso lugar de repouso em Cristo tropeçamos imediatamente e nosso testemunho diante dos homens fica prejudicado. Por outro lado, se permanecemos em Cristo, nossa posição ali assegura o poder para andar como é digno dele aqui sobre a terra.

Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves. In the degree that we look off unto Him to that degree are we delivered from self. We rest on the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, not on our own shifting experience. True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on looking off to the Savior!

The difference between saints and the rest of us isn't that they have loving, pure beliefs and we don't; rather, they function solely from their essence

Just as you breathe in and breathe out, there is a time for being ahead and a time for being behind; a time for being in motion and a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous and a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe and a time for being in danger.

Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.