Quotes about Rest

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.

God is God. If He is God, He is worthy of my worship and my service. I will find rest nowhere but in His will, and that will is infinitely, immeasurably, unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

It might be asked, 'How much time shall I allow myself for rest?' The answer is that no rule of universal application can be given, as all persons do not require the same measure of sleep, and also the same persons, at different times, according to the strength or weakness of their body, may require more or less.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

We go to bed at 8 o'clock at night, even on the weekend, just because that's our schedule.