Quotes about Rest

In the intervals between battles, the Warrior rests.

To those who were vigilant so we could rest, Who gave everything that we might thrive, Who are silent that we may breathe free, We honor you.

It is one great purpose of the Park to supply to the hundreds of thousands of tired workers, who have no opportunity to spend their summers in the country, a specimen of God's handiwork that shall be to them, inexpensively, what a month or two in the White Mountains or the Adirondacks is, at great cost, to those in easier circumstances.

The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet… but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:But the seventh day… thou shalt not do any work.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis [Eternal rest give them, O Lord: and let perpetual light shine upon them].

Those who sleep under a quilt, sleep under a blanket of love.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made.

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord… that they may rest from their labours.