Quotes About Rest

Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor A ship without an anchor can never be at rest

Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.

An object in motion tends to stay in motion, and an object too long at rest tends to have her throat slit.

Instead, he functioned well on four or five hours, with an occasional six. Sleep was rest to him, yes, but it also felt like a taste of death, waking to discover that, for hours, the world had gone on just fine without him, as one day it would go on forever.

While he watched, the phenomenon diminished. The whirl of leaves settled, and the night grew still once more. As the last leaves floated to rest on the grass, John thought he heard a familiar sigh of pleasure, one he hadn't heard for a long time. If this had been a ghost, it had been a blithe spirit. Filled with sudden wonder, remembering their golden retriever that had died two years earlier, John whispered, "Willard?

Besides, some books contained disturbing ideas. They started you thinking about things you wanted to forget, and though your thoughts became intolerable, you could not put them to rest. The

There's more to life than work and more work.

Anna, I hope I didn't wake

When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest.

He was a man who knew he'd come in after a long day and had found his shade (Irma)

the Sabbath almost singlehandedly creates and strengthens family ties and friendships. When a person takes off from work one day every week, that day almost inevitably becomes a day spent with other people—namely, family and/or friends. It has similar positive effects on marriages. Ask anyone married to a workaholic how good it would be for their marriage if the workaholic would not work for one day each week—and you can appreciate the power of the Sabbath Day.

God rested from all his work which he created to do/make. The last word, this last 'to do' is for us, we are the partners in the completion of creation, it's not done yet.

God rested, we take over!

There is work for us to do to be God's partner as it were and to continue. There is something for every one of you to do as a partner with God in this world. He has rested and as it were now, we take over. Later, God does not intervene quite as much as obviously as God did with the Exodus of Egypt.

Jehová es bueno, fortaleza en el día de la angustia; y conoce a los que en él confían. (Nahúm 1:7) Bienaventurado el hombre a quien tú, JAH, corriges, Y en tu ley lo instruyes, Para hacerle descansar en los días de aflicción, En tanto que para el impío se cava el hoyo. (Salmos 94:12-13) No temas, porque yo estoy contigo; no desmayes

We are never intended by God to stop short at an experience, a doctrine, a revelation, or a blessing. Thank God for every one of those things that we receive, but we cannot rest in them. Each one of them, in a sense, is somewhat impersonal and impermanent. What we need, in the last resort, is a person. And every true doctrine or revelation we receive will always lead us in the end to the person of God Himself.

I never can understand why most people imagine a bed – some sort of bed: any sort of bed – to be a prerequisite of sleep.

Sassenach," he said against my shoulder, a moment later. "Mm?" "Who in God's name is John Wayne?" "You are," I said. "Go to sleep.

Go to bed, Tom, he managed to say. Don't wake me in the morning. I plan to be dead.

Sleep, O sleep in the calm of all calm, Sleep, O sleep in the guidance of guidance, Sleep, O sleep in the love of all loves, Sleep, O beloved, in the Lord of life, Sleep, O beloved, in the God of life! It

Some nights, he even slept.

Fois shìorruidh thoir dha," he echoed. God rest his soul.

It occurred to me, listening to the chorus, that men in a hospital ward seldom really snore. Breathe heavily, yes. They gasp, groan occasionally, and sometimes sob or cry out in sleep. But there was no comparison to this healthy racket. Perhaps it was that sick or injured men could not sleep deeply enough to relax into that sort of din.

If he were to find rest tonight, they would have to be exhumed; the ghosts raised in order to lay them.