Quotes about Comfort

Death began to look like a friend.

She met his eyes, praying he understood. I felt safe with you. His expression softened. You'll always be safe with me.

Good friend, we all hurt for her. But her suffering will bring about God's purpose, and you will see it.

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

what other society would have such a natural regard for her privacy and comfort that the giver would intrude only enough to deposit the gift and not inflict her with the donor?

So many times you've given me comfort and forgetfulness.

Most of the Houses have grown fat by taking few risks. One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them.

We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.

give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart.

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.