No matter what storm you face, you need to know God loves you. He has not abandoned you.

We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning "with" and "strong" — He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.

In the midst of your battles, never forget that God loves you and He has a plan for you.

Fear knocked at the door. Love answered and no one was there.

May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.

Jesus said Fear not over 300 times because He knew our focus needed to be on God's love, not our fear. God's perfect love casts out fear. So

The conquest of fear, especially fear of unaccountable divine beings who meddle in nature at will, means a reduction in the sum total of human pain and suffering and opens the door to the calm acceptance of a new picture of the world—a world in which nature is autonomous and where there are ideal beings who never meddle.

May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself...

The events of the past year had drawn him out into lonelier and more dangerous theological territory, but there was a newfound freedom and a faith that bloomed in this situation. He knew that God was with him in a way he couldn't have known before, so his fear of Rome, if ever any had existed, had vanished.

God wants more than anything to let us know he is with us. He sees what we are going through and he cares. Furthermore, he is such a big God that he can afford to deal with us on an intimate level, to encourage us and to wink at us and to hold our hands when we need him to do that.