Quotes about Pause

The next time a challenging situation presents itself, take a pause and make the conscious choice to meet it with curiosity or humor or the knowledge that this too shall pass.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

I had a boom box with a dual cassette deck and a mic, so I used to make pause tapes. I think a lot of people started like that because it was all I had. I would just take rap records that I liked and just loop the beat by pressing pause and record and make, like, five minutes of these beats.

We imitate God by stopping our work and resting.

Sabbath is not dependent upon our readiness to stop.

The essence of being in God's image is our ability, like God, to stop. We imitate God by stopping our work and resting.

Time for a little something.

Time for a little something.

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms. Whereas Israelites are always tempted to acquisitiveness, Sabbath is an invitation to receptivity, an acknowledgment that what is needed is given and need not be seized.

Even in the wilderness with scarce resources, God mandates a pause for Sabbath for the community:

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

While we are on the go, we need to stop between steps, to refocus on the Word and the will of God