Quotes about Rest

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.

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.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

love to sleep. It's like being dead without the commitment

When God puts his Spirit inside you, your body becomes a temple of God, a residence for his love. So let me ask you this: If you saw someone vandalizing or damaging a temple dedicated to God, wouldn't you consider that a crime? Of course! But you abuse and vandalize God's temple, your body, when you deprive it of rest and sleep, overeat, put too much stress on it, and fail to take care of it.