Quotes About Rest

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed. I was born an insomniac and that's the way I'll die, wasting thousands of hours along the way longing for unconsciousness, longing for a rubber mallet to crack me in the head, not so hard, not hard enough to do any damage, just a good whack to put me down for the night.

I was born an insomniac and that's the way I'll die, wasting thousands of hours along the way longing for unconsciousness, longing for a rubber mallet to crack me in the head, not so hard, not hard enough to do any damage, just a good whack to put me down for the night.

The students would burn out if forced to spend their entire day amidst the social intensity of the cafeteria and hallway. Fortunately the school authorities also schedule dormant periods, called classes, during which the students can rest their minds and take a break from the pressures of social categorization. Students correctly understand, though adults appear not to, that socialization is the most intellectually demanding and morally important thing they will do in high school.

BE AT REST ONCE MORE, O MY SOUL. PSALM 116:7

If I could rest anywhere it would be in Arkansaw where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the earth.

Days off are one of the great joys of an ordinary working life, perhaps

all imperial arrangements do, ultimately, rest on terror.

Hai bisogno di uno con una mano grande così. [...] Uno che se ne sta con la mano alzata, forte, ferma, come la statua della Libertà, ma senza quel cono gelato. Solo con la mano aperta, in alto e allora tu... [...] tu da lontano, da qualsiasi punto della terra, vedrai quella mano e saprai che lì potrai posarti e riposare.

When the dark is at rest, the light begins to move.

As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.

He was travel stained, unkempt, and very tired, but his soul was at peace.

25th December, 1872, Christmas Day.—I thank the good Lord for the good gift of His Son Christ Jesus our Lord. Slaughtered an ox, and gave a fundo and a half to each of the party. This is our great day, so we rest.

Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God's will, whatever comes.

God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.

Nothing in the world glorifies God so much as simple rest of faith in what God's Word says.

The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more!

Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word.

Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.

My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.

We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.