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Quotes about Rest

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.
— Eugene Peterson
Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.
— Georgia Harkness
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.
— John Owen
Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Oh, sleep that dreams, and dream that never tires, press from the petals of the lotus flower something of this to keep, the essence of an hour.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The two poles of Christ's exalted divinity and his suffering humanity as explicitly as does Hebrews. The result of this undertaking — the salvation of humanity — from out of the inner being of the Holy Trinity is, incredibly, that the hearts and minds of sinful human beings should be eternally perfected and at rest in the near presence of the heavenly Father.
— Fleming Rutledge
This silence pours a solitariness Into the very essence of my soul; And the deep rest, so soothing and so sweet, Hath something too of sternness and of pain.
— John Henry Newman
Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.
— Winston Churchill
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
— Alice Walker
If you will remain at rest and hold your peace, then the battle is not yours, but the battle is the Lord's.
— Joel Osteen
God is fighting your battles. When you're at rest, God will make your enemies your footstool.
— Joel Osteen
Clear out the worry, clear out the offense, clear out the negativity. Live from a place of peace, a place of rest, a place of faith. God has you in the palm of His hand. Nothing you're facing is a surprise to Him.
— Joel Osteen