Quotes about Rest

when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.

Are we going to answer God's call for this church to make a significant impact in this new millennium, or will we rest on past success?

Sleep is a luxury to anxious minds.

He would keep the rest where it belonged: in that tobacco tin buried in his chest where a red heart used to be.

Lay my head on the railroad line, Train come along, pacify my mind.

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.

The Greek word translated "peace" in the Scripture is eirene. This word is equivalent to the Hebrew word shalom. Essentially, eirene embodies completeness, wholeness, and an inner resting of the soul that does not fluctuate based on outside influences. A person who is at peace is someone who is stable, calm, orderly, and at rest within. The opposite of peace, of course, is inner chaos, anxiety, and worry. This

If the Lord is your Shepherd, He will meet all your needs. By allowing Him to freely do this for us, we can rest assured that whatever possible need arises, our Good Shepherd is sure to be there.

You can sleep peacefully at night because you are God's beloved—you have aligned yourself underneath His lordship and comprehensive rule—and He is working while you are snoring.

The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces; let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

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

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.