525 Quotes About Rest

If desire rest for your soul, delight in repentance.

If you desire rest for your soul, delight in repentance.

Paradise might have been here; and it is certainly here amid these forests that the Lord God now is resting, recovering from that huge disaster that was the creation of mankind.

When you are tired, you rest. You don't give up.

Sacred rest is not just about sleeping or taking it easy. It consists of physical, emotional, and spiritual rest. The purpose is to promote a healthier mindset, attitudes, boundaries, relationships, productivity, and wellness as a whole person; body, mind, and spirit.

God gave you brain so that you can give Him rest. He wasn’t wrong.

Stop for one whole day every week, and you will remember what it means to be created in the image of God, who rested on the seventh day not from weariness but from complete freedom. The clear promise is that those who rest like God find themselves free like God, no longer slaves to the thousand compulsions that send others rushing toward their graves.

David did many might deeds in his life. He did many foolish deeds in his life. But perhaps the noblest was their rarely discussed deed: he honored the tired soldiers at Brook Besor. (Facing Your Giants) p 78

To speak your truth, is often all that is required. To be heard, with all purpose, to be acknowledged. To be seen, in all colors and all deformity, is liberation. And yet be tolerated, and even forgiven, for our failures. That is happiness without thought. Work with pleasure; when tired, given rest; when hungry, being fed; when sad, restored. Not excused, but loved.