Quotes about Rest
He would keep the rest where it belonged: in that tobacco tin buried in his chest where a red heart used to be.
— Toni Morrison
Lay my head on the railroad line, Train come along, pacify my mind.
— Toni Morrison
Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.
— Toni Morrison
The Greek word translated "peace" in the Scripture is eirene. This word is equivalent to the Hebrew word shalom. Essentially, eirene embodies completeness, wholeness, and an inner resting of the soul that does not fluctuate based on outside influences. A person who is at peace is someone who is stable, calm, orderly, and at rest within. The opposite of peace, of course, is inner chaos, anxiety, and worry. This
— Tony Evans
If the Lord is your Shepherd, He will meet all your needs. By allowing Him to freely do this for us, we can rest assured that whatever possible need arises, our Good Shepherd is sure to be there.
— Tony Evans
You can sleep peacefully at night because you are God's beloved—you have aligned yourself underneath His lordship and comprehensive rule—and He is working while you are snoring.
— Tony Evans
The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces; let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
— Anonymous
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
— Francois Rabelais
If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.
— St. John Chrysostom
I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.
— Jack Kerouac
I want to marry a girl, I told them, so I can rest my soul with her till we both get old.
— Jack Kerouac