Quotes About Rest

Sabbath is not so much about a day off as it is a "day up"—a day to remember that He is God and we are not.

Let's face it, stillness is not exactly easy to come by in today's culture. We are far more likely to be restless, anxious, fearful, fretful, and busy. But God's invitation is to be still—and to find again, in the calm pause, the assurance that He is, in fact, God. His plans are undeterred, and with or without us, He is going to receive glory from all peoples on the face of the earth.

From an early age, we are taught to be proud, strong, and independent. None of those things are wrong, but when it comes to our Christian life, the paradigm has to shift. Jesus invites us to rest, to trust, to depend on him.

Sabbath happens anywhere and everywhere we let go of the controls and lay the cares of our lives at His feet.

businesses were closed on Sundays,

"What shall you do all your vacation?" asked Amy. "I shall lie abed and do nothing," replied Meg.

Up from the bronze, I sawWater without a flawRush to its rest in air,Reach to its rest, and fall.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.

Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.

As I go to bed, I collect my thoughts. I go over the events of the day and bless each activity. I affirm that I will sleep deeply and soundly, awakening in the morning bright and refreshed and looking forward to the new day.

It will bring more good in. Please do not listen to the news or watch it on TV the last thing at night. The news is only a list of disasters, and you don't want to take that into your dream state. Much clearing work is done in the dream state, and you can ask your dreams for help with anything you are working on. You will often find an answer by morning. Go to sleep peacefully.

I am tired," Gamache murmured as he walked into the gentle little village. "But I am at peace.

This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.

You lie upon my heart as on a nest, Folded in peace, for you can never know How crushed I am with having you at rest Heavy upon my life.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

You do the best you can, but you don't want to start worrying about your lack of sleep, because it's been found that worrying about lack of sleep is one of the big causes of insomnia

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.

If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?

Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?

To have output you must have input. It helps to go on a period of creative nourishment, or dolce far niente, clearing the brain. Go to bed with the cat, some flouffy pillows, tea and a book which could not in any sense be called improving. Read for fun for a change: superior Chicklit is good, or children's classics. You are not allowed to try and analyse what the author is doing. After a good sleep, go and do something new, or that you haven't done for a while....

Once more do I warn thee,' answered the old man with undisturbed composure, "Wake not the dead" — let her rest.' 'Aye, but not in the cold grave: she shall rather rest on this bosom which burns with eagerness to clasp her.

You must be exhausted from singing & need to rest your throat. - Trey Nice Way to tell her to shut up - Anna