Charles Spurgeon Quotes

The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.

It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever, without recreation may suit spirits emancipated from this 'heavy clay', but while we are in this tabernacle, we must every now and then cry halt, and serve the Lord by holy inaction and consecrated leisure. Let no tender conscience doubt the lawfulness of going out of harness for a while

Don't get me wrong - I like to rest a little bit. But I don't do well with downtime.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.

A few years back, I had this urge to be on the go all the time. It's important to find a balance, though. Now my motto is, do the work, but recharge, too!

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

I'm so busy during my everyday, when I go on vacation I need to pull the plug like they say, and to do nothing.

Rest is by no means a waste of time.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

I don't travel so much now, I get tired

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.

Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad.

Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price.

I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.

Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.