Quotes About Comfort

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions.

We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God

Heaven is a place where God will personally wipe away our tears.

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.

Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.

Solitude is bearable only with God.

I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.

I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.

There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.

We want the safety of yesterday even though we know it's not where God would have us.

Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.

God's strength makes us strong; His comfort comforts us. With Him, we no longer run; we rest.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.

And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very grateful for the plant.

But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face