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Quotes About Comfort

There is comfort in such accumulations, layers of lives, of years. Gardening tools, wheelbarrow, arousal cans, old bicycles, recycling bins, battered trash cans, cardboard boxes stacked in a corner, cracked clay pots, exiled kitchenware & furniture, antique television, dog food bowls. You could do an inventory of a household by all that has been worn out or excluded, exiled from it. You could do an inventory of a life.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
She wanted a relationship that seemed already mature, if not old and settled, at the start. Newness and rawness did not appeal to her.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
you cried, they tried to comfort you. But if you were stony faced they let you alone.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It is the easiest tie to break—my Friend consoled me—the tie that was badly frayed to begin with.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
She was murmuring, "It's all right, dear, it will be all right, I love you." For that was the one thing she knew, amid all that she didn't.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Burnaby wasn't a Christian but he behaved like a Christian is supposed to behave which made Colborne, a Christian, uncomfortable.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Solace came only with darkness. When dusk yielded to the sweet oblivion of night.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Thank god for beauty, a balm to the soul.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and walk outside with him, where the night air will sourround him, and moonlight fall on his face. Whistle, maybe. Dance. Hum. Pray. (how to calm a crying baby)
~ Joyce Maynard
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned or scorched, nor will the flame kindle upon you. Isaiah 43:2
~ Joyce Meyer
God has never promised a life without suffering, but He has promised to comfort us and give us the strength to carry on. He has also promised to work good out of everything that happens to us if we love Him and continue wanting His will in our lives (Rom. 8:28).
~ Joyce Meyer
GOD'S WORD FOR YOU TODAY: Your worst day with God will be better than your best day without Him. The Holy Spirit is here to speak to you and help you in every way you need help today.
~ Joyce Meyer
It is so wonderful and comforting to know that when everyone else only sees our faults, God still sees our possibilities.
~ Joyce Meyer
God can give us words of comfort or direction, and we can be very excited, filled with faith, feeling bold and able to conquer the enemy.
~ Joyce Meyer
Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. JOHN 14:27
~ Joyce Meyer
Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but an encouraging word makes it glad. PROVERBS 12:25
~ Joyce Meyer
God has said repeatedly that we do not need to fear because He is with us. The prayer
~ Joyce Meyer
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] MATTHEW 11:28
~ Joyce Meyer
concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.
~ Joyce Meyer
Always living in the safe zone of life and never taking chances actually makes one a thief and a robber.
~ Joyce Meyer
I will restore health to you, and I will heal your wounds, says the Lord. —JEREMIAH 30:17
~ Joyce Meyer
When storms arrive in your life, remember that Jesus is in your boat. He is with you at every moment, and He will bring you to the other side.
~ Joyce Meyer
Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.]" This
~ Joyce Meyer
God may speak to us by giving us peace deep inside, giving us a creative idea, calming our troubled emotions, or filling our hearts with the calm assurance that everything is going to be okay in a certain situation.
~ Joyce Meyer