Four Snippets on Rest

Reflect today on these Christian thinkers’ approach to rest. Notice which quote stands out most to you. Spend a little time with it, asking the Spirit to guide you and deepen you in your capacity to rest.

  1. Sabbath: It goes against everything in me to accept that God would ask us to do less, not more. - Rachel Held Evans and Jeff Chu, Wholehearted Faith

  2. This idea of doing nothing proves to be absolutely terrifying to most people I speak with. But at least the person who is capable of doing nothing might be capable of refraining from doing the wrong thing. And then perhaps he or she would be better able to do the right thing. - Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy

  1. Something I had never before noticed: Sabbath rest is not a reward that God gave humanity for a productive week. The very first Sabbath day was also humans’ very first full day of existence. In other words, they hadn’t done a thing. - Rachel Held Evans and Jeff Chu, Wholehearted Faith

  2. Stand still, and allow the deadly restlessness of our tragic age to fall away. . . . That restlessness was once considered the magic carpet to tomorrow, but now we see it for what it really is: a running away from oneself, a turning from the journey inward that all [people] must undertake to meet God dwelling within the depths of their souls. - Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Russian mystic