Quotes About Rest

Simple, daily faith saves us from chronic worry. When we abide in Christ and rest in His promises, no alarm can overwhelm us for long, and no anxiety can sustain its attack.

Come, every soul by sin oppressed; There's mercy with the Lord, And He will surely give you rest By trusting in His Word. For Jesus shed His precious blood Rich blessings to bestow; Plunge now into the crimson flood That washes white as snow. Come, then, and join this holy band, And on to glory go To dwell in that celestial land Where joys immortal flow.

O how praying rests the weary! Prayer will change the night to day; So when life seems dark and dreary, Don't forget to pray.

Rest is a space that God gives us where we are removed from the expectations to be productive.

There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. – Hebrews 4:9

I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the LORD sustained me. – Psalm 3:5

When the day of toil is done, When the race of life is run, Father, grant Thy wearied one Rest forevermore. When the strife of sin is stilled, When the foe within is killed, Be Thy gracious Word fulfilled: Peace forevermore. When the darkness melts away At the breaking of the day, Bid us hail the cheering ray: Light forevermore. When the heart by sorrow tried, Feels at length its throbs subside, Bring us, where all tears are dried, Joy forevermore.

You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. – Isaiah 26:3

I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

Faith in Christ brings peace. Faith in Christ brings rest. Faith in Christ brings contentment and true fulfillment.

Smell, the sense which somehow seems a joke, is the one most susceptible to outrage. It will give you no rest. One can close one's eyes to ugliness or shield the ears from sound; but from a powerful smell there is no recourse but flight.

Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed.

Sleep is a weapon!

For the believer in divine creation, the open question of the Mystery of Being is like an open wound. It stings and gapes, and the believer cannot rest till it be healed up, closed up, smeared with the soothing balm of an answer, even if his doctrine be a sophisticated one like Aquinas's or that of the latest Liberal Protestant theologian.

Acaso durmiendo es cuando más cerca estamos de Dios.

but with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I had learned to take naps. Up until five months ago something or other or die had always seemed like a plain choice in favor of the something or other.

She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree he had propped them up against, and closed his own eyes.

Luthe sat wearily down. 'I have sat up here too long; it is so pleasant, not meddling.

Sleep is like a drug," he explained. "Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time, vitality and opportunities.

The better the sleep, the less I will need.

For the first few days, you will feel very tired.

take at least two full days off each week. No technology. 'Zero Device Days

So, don't allow yourself to get exhausted. Period.