Rest Quotes

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

~ Mary E. Demuth

If we rest, we shall renewal our strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we rest, we shall renewal our strength

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Rest leads to renewal of spirit, soul and strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When we rest, our energy is restored.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The paradox of relaxation is the renewal of mind, rekindle of spirit and revitalize of strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your castles and strongholds shall have bars of iron and bronze, and as your day, so shall your strength, your rest and security, be.” Deuteronomy 33:25 AMP

~ Anonymous

When everything has gone down, God wants youto look up

~ Richmond Akhigbe

There is revival after rest.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What dreams lie dormant hidden in the womb of your soul, quietly waiting, incubating seeking opportunity to come forth? Like the female cycle that comes every 28 days, over and over again, dreams come to rest in the soil of your mind. They compel you. They disturb you. They haunt you with visions of possibility. They prompt you to walk restlessly through life knowing that you may someday stop, listen and decide to nourish them with faith and action. Yield to the silent urging. Listen. Hear. Receive.Let the dream speak. For it will burst forth from the womb of your spirit. It frees into existence something that lives, brooding in the corner your mind. Hold the seed. Grow the seed. Birth the seed. And life will begin anew.

~ Stella Payton

Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other.

~ Kim John Payne

And so I miss the fertilization that might come from a contact. And for me--yes, I think I might as well admit it--fertilization does come a great deal from contacts. Why then do I avoid them--in a sort of false pride--shyness--timorous modesty? I used to be afraid of falling in love with people--or having them think I was--that I was chasing them (how ridiculous--I am actually always running away!) but now surely--I should be mature enough to be over that. I am no longer afraid of falling in love, and the other false modesties should vanish. I cannot bear to think par delicatesse j'ai perdu ma vie. (Because of discretion I have lost my life).

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

You have to choose whether to go to a restless sleep or to stay awake and fight for a blissful night rest.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Allow your mind to be still and rest in His presence.

~ Rachel K Kidder

It is nearly impossible to feel anything negative in here. Because you’re really connected, to everything, here… but it’s only meant to be a temporary sanctuary, a place to remember yourself. In time you’ll want your negative thoughts, your emotional baggage back, and you’ll have hopefully bolstered yourself enough with the Sanctum’s reminder of your Source that you can come out with fresh perspective. When you’ve had enough of it, you’ll know, and then come and join us outside.

~ Colleen Chen

O Lord saves us from overworking! Grant us grace to rest awhile.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

EVENTIDEDark and light strikingeach other,vividly etching wild colorsthrough the horizon.The charm of sunset makes me wantto scurry home.

~ Tara Estacaan

My discourse leads to the truth; the mind is great and guided by this teaching is able to arrive at some understanding. When the mind has understood all things and found them to be in harmony with what has been expounded by the teachings, it is faithful and comes to rest in that beautiful faith.

~ Hermes Trismegistus

When you don’t understand what is happening, you need to wait, trust God, and rest in His care. He is always faithful to His own.

~ Jim George

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

~ Mary E. Demuth

Trying so hard to make things go our way in this world, doing so much leaning, is exhausting. I am convinced that is exactly what Jesus had in mind when he said, ‘Come to me all you who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest’ (Matthew 11:28 NASB).

~ Van Harden

The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured. Blessed are you who honour this day.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.

~ George Macdonald

Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.Think rather,--call to thought, if now you grieve a little,The days when we had rest, O soul, for they were long.Men loved unkindness then, but lightless in the quarryI slept and saw not; tears fell down, I did not mourn;Sweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry:Then it was well with me, in days ere I was born.Now, and I muse for why and never find the reason,I pace the earth, and drink the air, and feel the sun.Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season:Let us endure an hour and see injustice done.Ay, look: high heaven and earth ail from the prime foundation;All thoughts to rive the heart are here, and all are vain:Horror and scorn and hate and fear and indignation--Oh why did I awake? when shall I sleep again?

~ A.e. Housman

The graveyard is an everlasting resting place.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Work while you can and rest when you must.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your previous accomplishments should be your stepping stones, you need them to jump up. They should not become beds that should keep you comfortably sleeping.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Stress is equivalent to weapons of mass destruction armed for wrong reasons. The difference is that, it is less costly as compared to the atomic bombs! However, it destroys faster!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Stop over-loading yourself with numberless tasks. Give time to yourself for rest and positive deliberations. You can’t think better and plan better when you are under stress!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Vacate the bench of rest and play the game of the bests. Keep on marching, no more benching!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There is time for everything, a time to MAKE the BEST and a time to TAKE a REST...

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don't accommodate complains in your chamber, else you have a sleepless and restless night. Keep them away and fall in love with actions for solution!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

~ Suzy Kassem

Rest is luxury when you chasing your dreams, don't get used to it and don't prolong it when you get a chance at it.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Miranda doesn't dream, she simply rests. When Miranda's eyes are at ease, her mind is at peace.

~ Ingeborg Bachmann

For a time I hovered in that peaceful dreamland where nothing at all works properly but everything is okay.

~ William Giraldi

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

~ Criss Jami

There was no opiate like a French pillow.

~ David Mccullough

Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest?'Tis that every mother's sonTravails with a skeleton.Lie down in the bed of dust;Bear the fruit that bear you must;Bring the eternal seed to light,And morn is all the same as night.

~ A.e. Housman

When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are only compounded by the stillness of night.

~ Brandon Sanderson