Quotes about Repose

When we can achieve calm and repose while those around us are losing their heads and blaming things on us, we are beginning to grow.

‘Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or where will My place of repose be?

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.

This morning I am wonderfully peaceful. Just like a storm that has spent itself.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?

The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.

to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.

I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter—the Eternity they have entered—where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first awaked, and found myself reposed, Under a shade, on flowers, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.

In the chamber of death... I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadow less hereafter-the Eternity they have entered-where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fullness... One might doubt in seasons of cold reflection; but not then in the presence of her corpse. It asserted its own tranquility, which seemed a pledge of equal quiet to its former inhabitant.