Quotes About Comfort

Who do you suppose has it easier? Ones with religion or just taking it straight? It comforts them very much but we know there is no thing to fear. It is only missing it that's bad. Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you. That is where you have all the luck, see? You don't have any of that.

Think about something cheerful, old man, he said. Every minute now you are closer to home.

He was nervous, and I did not try to help him any.

In those days you did not really need anything, not even the rabbit's foot, but it was good to feel it in your pocket.

The gravel paths were moist and the grass was wet with dew. The battery fired twice and the air came each time like a blow and shook the window and made the front of my pajamas flap. I could see the guns but they were evidently firing directly over us. It was a nuisance to have them there but it was a comfort that they were no bigger.

Mary's extremely nice cousin had given us two small square sacking-covered pillows filled with balsam needles. I always slept with mine under my neck or, if I slept on my side, with my ear on it. It was the smell of Michigan when I was a boy and I wished I could have had a sweet-grass basket to keep it in when we traveled and to have under the mosquito net in the bed at night.

Bed is my friend

I am afraid to die, Pilar,' he said. 'Tengo miedo de morir. Dost thou understand?' " 'Then get out of bed,' I said to him. 'There is not room in one bed for me and thee and thy fear all together.

These people made it a comfortable café since they were all interested in each other and in their drinks or coffees, or infusions, and in the papers and periodicals which were fastened to rods, and no one was on exhibition.

After supper we went up-stairs and smoked and read in bed to keep warm. Once in the night I woke and heard the wind blowing. It felt good to be warm and in bed.

Goodnight my kitten.

One of my favorite quotes: There is no friends as loyal as a book -Ernest Hemingway

wanted to be there to say good-bye to him. No matter what a person does, there ought to be somebody on his side at the last moment.

Liegen, bei dir ich liege bei dir deine arme halten mich. deine arme halten mehr als ich bin. deine arme halten, was ich bin wenn ich bei dir liege und deine arme halten mich.

God's will for us is less about our comfort than it is about our contribution. God

La desafortunada realidad es que muchos de nosotros escogeríamos nuestra comodidad en lugar de nuestro destino; escogeríamos la seguridad sobre la oportunidad; preferiríamos conformarnos con menos que sacrificarnos más.

If you are comfortable with where you are, you will never know how far you can go. If you refuse to change, then you refuse to grow.

Our pop theology has eliminated the place for risk and insulated us with a comfort-and-security theology. This view runs counter to what is found in the Scriptures. I want to reiterate the fact that the center of God's will is not a safe place, but the most dangerous place in the world. God fears nothing and no one. God moves with intentionality and power. To live outside God's will puts us in danger, but to live in His will makes us dangerous.

Si la esclavitud sigue siendo una opción, nos encontraremos abdicando a nuestra libertad. Sencillamente, por lo general no lo llamamos esclavitud. Lo llamamos seguridad. Lo llamamos comodidad. Lo llamamos responsabilidad.

What I can tell you," she says, "is that his kindness makes me feel safe, but when I think about who I want to sleep with, safe is not what I look for.

A little girl lay flung back in her mother's lap as though sleep had struck her with a blow.

They raised their voices, cried out back and forth, as if grief could be fabricated into an argument to comfort itself with.

What burdens we lay on the dying, Laurel thought, as she listened now to the accelerated rain on the roof: seeking to prove some little thing that we can keep to comfort us when they can no longer feel--something as incapable of being kept as of being proved: the lastingness of memory, vigilance against harm, self-reliance, good hope, trust in one another.

Here at his own home, inside his own front door, there was nobody who seemed to be taken by surprise at what had happened to Judge McKelva. Laurel seemed to remember that Presbyterians were good at this.