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Quotes About Rest

Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.
~ Oscar Wilde
Our yesterdays hold broken and irreversible things for us. It is true that we have lost opportunities that will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ.     Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.
~ Oswald Chambers
Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him.
~ Oswald Chambers
O Lord, I have no inkling of Thy ways in external details, but I have the expectancy of Thy wonders soon to be. made visible. Lord, I look to Thee, how completely at rest I am, yet how free from seeing Thy way. Thou art God and I trust in Thee.
~ Oswald Chambers
Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.' The promise of entering his rest still stands, so let us never give up. Let us, therefore, make every effort - spoudazo - make every effort to enter that rest.
~ Oswald Chambers
the yoke of the Lord Jesus.
~ Oswald Chambers
O Lord, my approach to Thee is dulled because of my physical dimness, but my spirit and heart rejoice in Thee and my flesh shall rest in hope. Touch me bodily, O Lord, till I answer in thrilling health to Thy touch.
~ Oswald Chambers
Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.
~ Ovid
Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
~ Ovid
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
~ Ovid
He hoped no one would wake him because burying people took time and was a lot of effort.
~ Unknown
Sometimes it's not a spiritual problem; you just need a nap!
~ Pam Farrel
plans for the evening, Belle had enlisted the rest of her family to ensure that Mama was too busy to accompany her to the opera, so
~ Unknown
Arry thought her mind must be tired. It would not, in a sensible fashion, lie down and rest.
~ Pamela Dean
According to Cohen, it's only until the baby is four months old. After that, bad sleep habits are formed.
~ Pamela Druckerman
Há uma noite irresistível no fundo do homem. Todas as noites, as mulheres e os homens adormecem. Mergulham na noite como se as trevas fossem uma recordação.
~ Unknown
He arranged three hundred pairs of women's shoes on the stairway that climbed from Taylor Street to Broadway. High heels and flats, running shoes and loafers, all of them heading uphill, as if an army of invisible women had paused to rest while climbing. Danny-boy
~ Pat Murphy
But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not stir them up, and you seem eager to drag out all the sad old bones of his history and make them dance again. It's not nice, and it's not fair.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
it is impossible to come to a sensible conclusion about anything when one is very tired
~ Patricia C. Wrede
It is a great strain to have to reassure people that one is perfectly well when all one really wishes is to be left alone to sleep.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Perhaps we as a nation need a rest too - a breathing space, an amnesty, a season of mourning, a month of indulgence, a year of reprieve, a century of celebration. A laying down of arms, a laying on of hands. A long, cool rain of forgiveness.
~ Patricia J. Williams
You can't read all the time.
~ Unknown
You know," said Mama, "I'm going to go inside and rest. I feel tired." "I'll come in, too," I said. "I'll be in the barn," said Grandfather. "I'll come in later for a piece of cake." "Cakes don't last forever," said Mama. "Not with Grandfather around," I said.
~ Patricia MacLachlan
Right now, our model is the culture of exhaustion. We need to be exhausted before we can fall asleep, so we keep pushing and pushing ourselves. But if a society can't rest, how can it sleep?
~ Unknown