525 Quotes About Rest

Now at last I have come to see what life is,Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun,And the brave victories that seem so splendidAre never really won.Even love that I built my spirit's house for,Comes like a brooding and a baffled guest,And music and men's praise and even laughterAre not so good as rest.

...at its simplest, the opposite of acedia is love - devotion to Christ that produces active, sincere, engaged concern for others. If we let our thoughts wander, the sharpness of our holy concern will be dulled by lust, envy, greed or other unholy, lazy inward impulses.

it was really something to slip into your woman's armsand go to sleep like real people

Rest is synonymous with grace, which is never seized by force but always taken hold of freely by faith.

Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought.

Do not fear ARREST. Why? Because, there is REST at the end of each AR"REST"; either in jail or in the grave. The wisest and the greatest of men are aware of this.

After some point, working harder makes achieving the goal harder or even impossible.

Even in those rest times, though, often we are really restless and dissatisfied with the way we rest.

The busyness of our lives can lead to imbalance if we do not take periodic breaks. This disequilibrium can put us ill at ease, making us prone to dis-ease...