Quotes about Rest

The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend. Your Sabbath, Lord, thus keeps us by Your will, not ours. And it is fit Our only choice should be to die Into that rest, or out of it.

And God? He's in these hills because we are. No matter how far you run, you can't shake Him. Maybe Davis and I know that best, but Emma knew it first, and Saint Augustine said it best: You stir man to take pleasure in praising You, because You have made us for Yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in You.

I believe I see what the week is for: it is to give time to rest up from the weariness of Sunday.

As a matter of recuperation the vacation does not recuperate, since as a rule, no man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to reform his life.

I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

God did His most magnificent work while Adam was asleep. This episode contains and important insight: When man rests, God works.

You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.