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If thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace—not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.


Rest is not quitting
     This busy career;
Rest is the fitting
     Of self to its sphere.

Goethe.

It is not the placidity of stupid ease that we should covet, but the repose that is requisite for the renewal of exhausted strength, the serenity that succeeds the storm, and the salubrity that repays its ravages.


Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee.


Oh, give Thine own sweet rest to me,
     That I may speak with soothing power
A word in season, as from Thee,
     To weary ones in needful hour.


Rest in the Lord. Let your intellect, your judgment, your reason, rest in God; in God personal, and possessed of every perfection—almighty and all-knowing, kind, righteous, and holy; that is, on a God truly Divine. Rest in the Lord as He reveals Himself in the gospel, merciful and gracious. Faith in God is good, but faith in Him as our own God is better.