Quotes About Rest

Till you can rest in God's will you will never have rest.

I am persuaded our discontents, and murmurings with out unpleasing condition, and our covetous desires after more, are not so provoking to God, nor so destructive to the sinner, as our too sweet enjoying, and rest of spirit in a pleasing state. . . . Our rest is our heaven, and where we take our rest, there we make our heaven(457).

If our rest was here, most of God's providences must be useless. Should God lose the glory of his church's miraculous deliverances, and of the fall of his enemies, that men may have their happiness here?

Q: Explain the concept of homeostasis? A: It is when you stay at home all day and don't go out.

He also came to realize that he had been so busy attempting to do things for God he had not spent time enjoying fellowship with God.

Never do anything if it means you can't sleep at night.

Listen. Take the best. Leave the rest.

Like a good harbor, the child therapist offers the besiegedc child physical shelter, tolerance of her defensive preoccupation, and a rare opportunity to let down her guard and rest. Just as a sinking hull must be righted and secured before more lasting repairs can be made, therapy can help a child enduringly heal only after she has been spared further abuse and neglect.

A pillow for thee will I bring, Stuffed with down of angel's wing.

Likewise, if we care for others' salvation, we will expend ourselves in ministry to them-in prayer, in service, and in witness. If we are not willing to be wearied-if we do not find ourselves sometimes needing a rest from our labors-then we are not likely to accomplish much in Christian ministry.

Also, don't allow naps to run so late (past 4:00 P.M., perhaps) that they will interfere with falling asleep at night.

If Betsy was still asleep at 7:00 A.M., they would get her up no matter how much she'd been awake during the night.

Thus, in children, the first three or four hours of the night are spent mainly in very deep sleep from which the child is not easily roused. Parents are often aware of this fact, because the period of lighter sleep that follows, with more frequent wakings, may well begin at about the time they are going to sleep themselves.

By three or four months of age they will be getting most of their sleep at night, usually including an unbroken stretch of five to nine hours.

So if you are beginning to address a sleep problem in your child, be sure to set up a firm schedule and stick to it rigorously for several weeks after your child has begun sleeping well again.

Use the same waiting schedule for naps, but if your child has not fallen asleep after half an hour, or if he is awake again and calling or crying vigorously after even a short period of sleep, end that nap time.

No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.

Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able,And on the seventh—holystone the decks and scrape the cable.

F]or there are times when bed is the only place on earth where peace is to be had, and that was one of them.

So I kissed her, and went out, and up on top of the mountain to have peace, for I had a grudge that was savage with heat against everybody, and only up on top there, where it was green, and high, and blue, and quiet, with only the winds to come at you, was a place of rest, where the unkindness of man for man could be forgotten, and I could wait for God to send calm and wisdom, and O, a blessed ease.

Then he sat down beside the casket and rested his forehead against its cold metal side. Silence held him in its cold and gentle hands.

Synapses in motion tend to stay in motion. Synapses at rest tend to stay at rest.

Soon his eyes close on their own accord, and he's swept back into sleep, that nightly place of plantlike deliverance.

Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are.