Sleep Habits Quotes

“My disordered sleep reveals a disordered love, idols of entertainment or productivity.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

“There is a profound connection between the sleep we get in our beds each night and the sacramental rest we know each Sunday in our gathered worship. Both gathered worship and our sleep habits profess our loves, our trusts, and our limits. Both involve discipline and ritual. Both require that we cease relying on our own effort and activity and lean on God for his sufficiency. Both expose our vulnerability. Both restore.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

“We learn to rest by practice, by routine, over time. This is true of our bodies, our minds, and our souls, which are always intertwined.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

“But every evening, whether we like it or not, we must admit again that we are not unlimited. Our bodies get tired. Our efforts prove futile. We are needy. Yielding to sleep confesses this reality: a confession that is countercultural and revolutionary. We are not sufficient; we need a caretaker. And this must affect our bodily routines, our worship, and our view of God.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

“God wants to give us not just lives of holiness and prayer but also of sufficient rest. And perhaps a key step toward a life of prayer and holiness is simply receiving the gift of a good night's sleep.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life