Quotes About Rest

There are two medicines for all ills: time and silence.

Sleep is a very capricious goddess, and it is precisely when she is invoked that she delays coming. - Page 184

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

The contemporary sluggard won't go to places he should go (such as church), saying, "It's too dangerous out there on the highways!" Or he might say, "If I discipline my time for the purpose of godliness, I might miss important things on TV or the Internet, or become so busy I won't get enough rest!" And he plops down on the couch or rolls back over in bed.

It is easier to read about life than to live it, Even so young I knew that. Even so young I needed a rest from the living.

The Christian practice of receiving the day is made for people who have and are bodies. These bodies will operate, for awhile, on mere fuel ... but these bodies cry out for something better than fuel: they cry out for care, for nourishment, for exercise, for rest.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

No, I have slept enough, and I like looking outside. It makes me hopeful. There is nothing like God's sunshine to cheer you up.

Se ouviram, sabem que só me resta fazer uma coisa: deitar-me aqui à beira-mar, na minha praia coberta de pétalas de rosa e entregar-me ao meu sono interminável.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love!

busyness is usually a sign of brokenness.

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

She could stay out all night without feeling the least bit tired, but when she first awoke she felt like a slug. And

dogs sleep on padded beds inside heated homes.

The need for sleep could be a terrible burden, but she was glad sleep existed. If it didn't, one would never get any real downtime. This way, no matter what happened the night before, you could wake up and feel like you had a new lease on life, a clean slate, that a chapter had ended and a new one had begun.

Our desire for sleep, like our desire for food, obeys a law of satiation. The attempt to circumvent this law will cause impaired mental and physical performance.

Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable.

This is also the central reason why Christians do not observe the seventh day as their day of rest. Given the "everlasting" language of the Old Testament with regard to the sabbath, nothing short of a new creation could have moved that day from the seventh to the first. The seventh day was imbedded in the created order, and it would stay that way until the created order was overhauled, redone, re-created—which it was in the resurrection of Jesus.

On the sabbath rest that remains for the people of God (4:9), which is to say, on the Lord's Day. God created the heavens and earth in six days, and he hallowed the seventh day as one of holy rest. No sufficient reason for changing the day can be found—short of a new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. We have a new sabbath because we have a new creation; the old has passed away.

This book is to be read in bed.

The mind with many secrets can never rest.

Everyone confusedly conceives of a good in which the mind may be at rest, and desires it; wherefore everyone strives to attain it.

Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can't think all the time.