Quotes about Rest

Trust in Him Are you upset, worrying, or trying to make something happen? You don't have to be! God has a place of peace and rest for you, and all you have to do to enter His rest is put your trust in Him.

Trust God, relax, rest in Him, and enjoy the life He has given you. Put your expectations on God, not on people.

their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest] where the scornful [and the mockers] gather.

wonderful. Being nervous, tense, and worried is not wonderful, so why aren't more people relaxed? Jesus said if we are weary and overburdened, we should go to Him and He will give us rest, relaxation, and ease (see Matt. 11:28—29). Jesus wants to teach us the right way to live, which is different from the way most of the world lives. It would be putting it mildly

Let God fight your battles while you remain at rest, trusting Him.

That divine rest on the seventh day of creation has made clear (a) that YHWH is not a workaholic, (b) that YHWH is not anxious about the full functioning of creation, and (c) that the well-being of creation does not depend on endless work.

But Sabbath is not only resistance. It is alternative. It is an alternative to the demanding, chattering, pervasive presence of advertising and its great liturgical claim of professional sports that devour all our "rest time.

Even in the wilderness with scarce resources, God mandates a pause for Sabbath for the community:

Hans Walter Wolff has suggested that the Sabbath is the great equalizer, for that day is a foretaste of the kingdom when all-great and small-are reckoned to be exactly equal .2' All-masters and slaves-are to engage in this most godlike activity of being at peace.

is clear that Sabbath, in the horizon of Deuteronomy, is not only provision for a day of rest. It is in fact a tap root for a political economy that is imagined and practiced differently. In that different economy, economic concerns are subordinated to and governed by neighborly relationships. The economy has no autonomous function, but is designed to serve the common good of the neighborhood.

Sabbath is the visible acknowledgment that life is not defined by commoditization.

Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one's life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.