Quotes about Rest
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
— Mother Teresa
I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.
— Donald Miller
In the midst of a universe that cannot exist for a second without constant motion, God transcended the order of nature. He stopped. He rested. And He prescribes the same for you and me.
— Priscilla Shirer
There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.
— Laurence Sterne
Hurry wounds a questioning soul.
— Sarah Bessey
Be patient and one day you will be in Heaven, where there will be only peace and joy ... You will possess an enduring tranquility and rest.
— Francis de Sales
Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
— John of the Cross
Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
— Victor Hugo
There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
— Soren Kierkegaard
Some people seem to be at peace-but in fact they're just resting up between fights.
— John Hagee
There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.
— Samuel Johnson
All things that speak of heaven speak of peace.
— Philip James Bailey