Quotes about Rest

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.

Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.

The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment.

We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.

The contemporary sluggard won't go to places he should go (such as church), saying, "It's too dangerous out there on the highways!" Or he might say, "If I discipline my time for the purpose of godliness, I might miss important things on TV or the Internet, or become so busy I won't get enough rest!" And he plops down on the couch or rolls back over in bed.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

You can't truly rest until every area in your life rests in God.

He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.

If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.

You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.