Rest Quotes

We don't even know how to rest anymore.

Craig Groeschel

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

Benjamin Franklin

On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day.

Bible

Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.

Matthew

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

Benjamin Franklin

On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day.

Bible

Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.

Matthew

The Hebrews knew that by rest, God meant not only the protection of their boundaries from invading hordes but the emotional, mental, and spiritual confidence they would have knowing that God was irreversibly with them. Rest was inseparable from God's presence. One always accompanies the other.

Rest and repose are as much a part of life’s journeys as seeing all we came to see.

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.

if you rest at work, you will work at rest

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I KNOW I AM CLUELESS,IT DOESN'T MEAN USELESS,MY MOM SAYS I AM BLESSED,EVEN THOUGH NOW MESSED,I WILL DO MY BEST,GOD WILL DO THE REST.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Heroes rarely get to rest when they desire to.

You, yourself, will never rest until you've tried!

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

The Kingdom of Heaven wants to rest in our hearts.

I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.

Thus it looks in the last analysis as if the soul which serves God in spirit and in truth enjoys a very unusual kind of peace: not the satisfying inward rest which we would have expected, nor the outward rest of having everything in order and nothing left out, but a rest which consists in contentment at having sacrificed both to the will of God.

Dom Hubert Van Zeller

My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch.....Laura Acosta

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

And here I am sitting again, yes, sitting again by this faithful lamp, feeling indescribably serene and unhurried. I shall travel this day's path quite calmly and just take a little holiday—my eyes and head are slightly overstressed and overstrained. One must have the patience to do a little less.

...I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind...

Rest, Recreated, Refreshed and Refuel!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.

Craig Groeschel

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

Radiate peace. Who knows? The peace you spread may create the only restful place in your environment.

Most are inclined to recline into a reclining position, in order to enjoy the decline.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

If you play and work hard then rest hard.

Stephen Richards

When you find yourself pushing through and using caffeine or sugar to keep going, this is the time to listen to your innate ultradian rhythm and take a rest.

Candess M. Campbell

When a leader is at their limit the last thing they want to hear is that they need to change even more. Maintaining good rhythms of rest, exercise and fun create more energy for a leader to be willing and open for change.

To live the extraordinary ecstasy of a good rest, all you have to do is to get very tired!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Rest and comfort are two different things. Rest is a planned temporary time to refresh and refocus the leader. Comfort is when you settle into unproductive routines and accept satisfactory or unsatisfactory results.

The fact that you can act with love even when you don’t feel love is very empowering. Why? Because whereas the feelings of love are fleeting and largely out of your control, you can take the actions of love anytime and anyplace for the whole rest of your life.

When the I AM THAT I AM made nothingAnd rested, which rest it certainly deserved,Night now accompanied day, and manHad his friend in the absence of the woman.

Antonio Machado

God didn't create universe in six days of human measure.God's still working, then hasn't yet reached the seventh day.

Toba Beta

Thy best of rest is sleep,And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'stThy death, which is no more.

William Shakespeare

Groping blindly in the darkness, he sank between the white mounds of cool feathers and slept as he fell, across the bed or with his head downward, pushing deep into the softness of the pillows, as if in sleep he wanted to drill through, to explore completely, that powerful massif of feather bedding rising out of the night.

I slept for over a full day, as you know, but I won’t say I rested.

Daniel Woodrell

A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.

When something hurts them, they weep.By night, they rest, they sleep

Christina Engela

I rest in ease, knowing there are others out there, whispering themselves to sleep, just like me.

Charlotte Eriksson

They had slept in the shelter of the ruins, though neither of them really got true rest.

Most animals sleep in a hole in the ground or hanging from a tree. Man alone has made for himself an elaborate resting place. And yet he is the only one to have developed the alarm clock to rouse himself from it, the only species to spend sixteen or more hours of each day away from it.

Rest is essential, but during our periods of rest, we must think to ourselves that in resting we are renewing our energy to fulfill our commitment.

Wu Wei

All right,’ Nico relented. ‘Maybe a little …’ He managed to take off his aviator jacket and wad it into a pillow before he keeled over and began to snore.

The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Self-employment killed the weekend.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We breathe our deepest during sleep. When we are in the state of full rest. We are able to be.

J.R. Rim

Being forever available to the rest of the world is overrated. I mean, what are 'missed calls' invented for?

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.

Walter Brueggemann

The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation.

Be patient and one day you will be in Heaven, where there will be only peace and joy ... You will possess an enduring tranquility and rest.

Francis de Sales

Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Too many people die in our world today because, they don’t eat well, rest well, play well and live well.

There are no rest stops on the road of life. Otherwise they'd be congested with traffic.

Richelle E. Goodrich

One day a week I seek to rest from earthly toil and sorrow.Revitalized, I find the strength to battle new tomorrows.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Stay alert at all times, alert to any opportunity for rest.

I have great respect for the Syrian people, as I do for the rest of the Middle East.

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