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Dictionary: Rest

Leisure time offers a respite from work, those essential duties of life such as paid employment and maintaining a household, to pursue other activities. Such nonobligatory pursuits range from entertainment to fine art, from peaceful relaxation to physical activity.

From the beginning, humankind was intended to work (Gen. 1:28; 2:15), but God also set apart one day per week for his creatures to share in his divine rest (Gen. 2:2–3; Exod. 20:8–11). This weekly rest should bring to mind God’s creation and the final rest in the age to come (Heb. 4:9–11). Although leisure time and Sabbath observance are not identical, both are opportunities to give thanks, worship, and put hope in God. They also refresh and enrich earthly life.

Indeed, every good thing is a gift from the Father (James 1:17), including time off from daily duties. How one uses leisure time is thus a matter of stewardship, much like one’s use of money and working time (cf. Matt. 25:14–30). Thus, although the Bible does not discuss playing sports or writing poetry, it does proclaim Christ as Lord over all spheres of life. Therefore “whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God” (1 Cor. 10:31).

Synonyms: relax, take a rest, ease up/off, let up, slow down, pause, have/take a break, unbend, repose, laze, idle, loaf, do nothing, take time off, slack off, unwind, recharge one's batteries, be at leisure, take it easy, sit back, sit down, stand down, lounge, luxuriate, loll, slump, flop, put one's feet up, lie down, go to bed, have/take a nap, nap, catnap, doze, have/take a siesta, drowse, sleep, lie, be laid, recline, be, be placed, be positioned, support, prop (up), steady, balance, lean, lay, set, sit, stand, position, place, put, be based on, be grounded in, be founded on, depend on, be dependent on, rely on, hinge on, turn on, hang on, pivot on, be contingent on, revolve around, centre on, relaxation, leisure, ease, inactivity, respite, time off, time out, breathing space, break, interval, interlude, intermission, base, holder, stay, prop, brace, rack, hook, frame, shelf, bracket, trestle, tripod, plinth, pedestal, foundation, bed, foot, substructure, a standstill, a halt, a stop, remainder, residue, remaining part/number/quantity, part/number/quantity (that is) left over, others, those left, remains, remnant, remnants, rump, surplus, difference, extra, excess, superfluity, overflow, overspill, additional people/material/things, extra people/material/things, remain, continue to be, keep, persist in being, carry on being, go on being

Antonyms: work, motion, movement, struggle, rage, go mad, have a fit, see red, hit the roof, toil, be active, labor, effort, agony, activity, do, blow one's stack, blow a gasket, do one's nut, go ape, go wild, lose it, drive, action, move

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Eat when you're hungry. Drink when you're thirsty. Sleep when you're tired.

Buddhist Proverb

The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that, he can sleep.

Charles Baudelaire

Sleep is the best meditation.

Dalai Lama

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

D. H. Lawrence

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

Doug Larson

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

E. M. Forster

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Earl Nightingale

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.

Edmund Burke

Rocked in the cradle of the deep, I lay me down in peace to sleep.

Emma Willard

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

Emo Philips

The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy.

Emo Phillips

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Erich Fromm

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Ernest Hemingway

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Francis Bacon

I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

Francois Rabelais

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

Frankie Valli

Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.

Frederick Pierce

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is nought good a sleeping hound to wake.

Geoffrey Chaucer

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

George Edward Herbert

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

George Orwell

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

George Santayana

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine

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