Quotes about Rest

Choose action, not rest. Choose the good in life in all things, and choose the opportunity as well as the chance to work when springtime smiles on your face.

I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

If you rest on the finished work of Jesus you have already the best evidence of your salvation in the world; you have God's word for it; what more is needed?

Hide me from day's garish eye, while the bee with honied thigh, that at her flowery work doth sing, and the waters murmuring with such consort as they keep, entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

When you seek to define who you are through those relationships, you are actually asking another sinner to be your personal messiah, to give you the inward rest of soul that only God can give. Only when I have sought my identity in the proper place (in my relationship with God) am I able to put you in the proper place as well. When I relate to you knowing that I am God's child and the recipient of his grace, I am able to serve and love you.

When I live out of a biblical sense of who I am (identity) and rest in who God is (worship), I will be able to build a healthy relationship with you.

And Sleep will not lie down, but walks Wild-eyed and cries to Time.

Death is the brother of Sleep, is he not?

It is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and Nature's best antidote for trouble.