Quotes about Rest

Cesar Milan, the "dog whisperer," says that dogs cannot be peaceful or teachable if they have no limits set to their freedom and their emotions. They are actually happier and at rest when they live within very clear limits and boundaries, with a "calm and assertive" master. My dog, Venus, is never happier and more teachable than when I am walking her, but on her leash. Could it be the same for humans at certain stages?

If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest.

Living the rest of your life for the glory of God will require a change in your priorities, your schedule, your relationships, and everything else.

Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom said, "If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest.

But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul.

Do not work so hard for Christ that you have no strength to pray for prayer requires strength.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

Blessed be to God for the day of rest and religious occupation wherein earthly things assume their true size.

There is, in Kafka, a sort of sleep-worship; he regards sleep as a panacea.

The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.