Quotes About Comfort

That it is possible to comfort your daughters with assurances about places in Heaven and eternal joy and how they may all be reunited after death and how he will be waiting for them, while not believing any of it.

Mother said that no parent in their right mind would display a portrait like that. Esme was not at all contrite. The chair was so uncomfortable, she said, there were two springs digging into my leg. She was funny like that, always so ridiculously oversensitive. She was like that princess in the story about the pea and all the mattresses. Is there a pea, I would say to her when she thrashed about in the bed at night, trying to get comfortable, and she would say, whole pods of them

The Irish are good in a crisis, Michael Francis thinks, as he eases back the clingfilm on a tray of sandwiches his aunt Bridie has left in the kitchen. They know what to do, what traditions must be observed; they bring food, casseroles, pies, they dole out tea. They know how to discuss bad news: in murmurs, with shakes of the head, their accents wrapping themselves around the syllables of misfortune. A

September 11 Never a trial that He is not there. Never a burden that He does not bear. Never a sorrow that He does not share. Moment by moment I'm under His care. —D.W.Whittle

Maggie Shayne

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

Grace," I said, very softly. Say something." Sam," she said, and I crushed her to me.

...she made her home in between the pages of books.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

A small café, that's love.

Maybe we made her feel safe,' Aaron said. 'So she can be brave.

I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours.

He was safe here; this was the place he loved - sanctuary, the paradise of his despair.

In the night, when the world hates you, it helps to sleep in the arms of someone who doesn't.

So why did you want to kiss me?" "We're friends aren't we?" Callum shrugged. I relaxed into a smile. "Of course we are." "And if you can't kiss your friends who can you kiss?" Callum smiled.

He wrapped his arms around me. We were cuddled up like a couple of spoons in a cutlery drawer.

We were comfort kissing, that's all. We wrapped our arms around each other for solace. Bear hugging. Squeezing the life out of each other as if we were trying to merge together. When at last we loosened our grip, in a strange way we were both more calm. Physically, at least. Not mentally.

Oh, they're fine,' said Jaxon. 'They

it any wonder I preferred the laughter of his house to the dignified silence of my own?

She was like an oasis in this scorching hot desert.

All I want to do is wrap my entire body around you and hold you, just to show you what love is.

Gott führe uns freundlich durch diese Zeiten; aber vor allem führe er uns zu sich.

Von guten Mächten wunderbar geborgen erwarten wir getrost, was kommen mag. Gott ist bei uns am Abend und am Morgen, und ganz gewiß an jedem neuen Tag.