Quotes About Comfort

Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.

Nothing is so safe as habit, even when habit is faked.

Home was a curious thing, like happiness. You never knew you had had it until it was gone.

Complacencies of the peignoir, and lateCoffee and oranges in a sunny chair.

Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try news things but still makes you feel safe.

In my judgment, the church in the United States must now face hard decisions such as we have not faced for a long time. We have indeed bought in as individual persons, even as a church, on consumerism, aimed at self-indulgence, comfort, security, and safety. We live our lives out of our affluence, and we discover that all our self-indulgence makes us satiated but neither happy nor safe.

Reeducation comes from voices that dissent from the unexamined comfort zone, from those who abrasively shock our comfort zones with voices from outside that violate the consensus that has been silently accepted.

The woes constitute the most radical criticism, for they are announcements and anticipations of death. The woes of Luke are pronounced against the rich (v. 24), the full (v. 25a), the ones who laugh (v. 25b), and the ones who enjoy social approval (v. 26)—which is to say that the death sentence is upon those who live fully and comfortably in this age without awareness or openness to the new future coming.

God is a magnet who draws pain to God's own self.

Reading Jeremiah alone leaves faith in death where God finally will not stay. And reading Second Isaiah alone leads us to imagine that we may receive comfort without tears and tearing. Clearly, only those who anguish will sing new songs. Without anguish the new song is likely to be strident and just more royal fakery.

Easy," came a whisper. "Watch the wheel. I'm all right.

Hansen had built a little world where he could follow his deadly pursuits away from the glare of home life. It was an old saw, as far as cops were concerned. People commit crimes in their own area, within their own comfort zone. Hansen was no exception. While

And each one of us drives love from our lives, drives the longing, the desire for happiness and peace from our lives, each time we run from generosity. There is no love, there is no peace, there is no joy without him. He and he alone is our reward exceedingly great; no physical comfort, no thing, no person can ever truly fill our lives.

Tendemos demasiado fácilmente a asociar nuestra satisfacción con un sentimiento de bienestar, a buscarla únicamente en nuestra comodidad. Perdemos de vista que, por debajo y detrás de todo eso, está Dios, que nos mantiene y sostiene. Dios permite que nuestro mundo se trastoque para recordarnos que no es nuestra morada permanente ni nuestro destino final y trabajemos por nuestro destino eterno y nuestra salvación.

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

They are an ordered, more or less consistent picture of the world, to which our habits, our tastes, our capacities, our comforts and our hopes have adjusted themselves. They may not be a complete picture of the world, but they are a picture of a possible world to which we are adapted. In that world people and things have their well-known places, and do certain expected things. We feel at home there. We fit in. We

Es war sogar etwas Tröstliches in dieser toten Welt, denn die Abwesenheit von Leben bedeutet auch die Abwesenheit von Gefahr. Alles Böse geht von den Lebenden aus.

Bücher sind das beste Schmerzmittel, um das Leben zu ertragen.

Lieber hinsetzen und entspannen als hinspannen und entsetzen.

Komisch warm daß inmitten eines Wirklichkeit gewordenen Alptraums, in einem unterirdischen Schloß ohne Ausgang mir schon der Anblick von lesbarer Schrift ein Gefühl von Geborgenheit geben konnte. Deshalb mußte ich lachen, oh meine Freunde, schallend und anhaltend.

Es gibt genügend praktische Erfindungen, die uns keinerlei Trost spenden", hatte Dylia einmal ihren Brüdern mitgeteilt. "Aber viel zu wenige trostspendende, die überhaupt keinen praktischen Nutzen haben.

Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with

taken care of." Sara gathered the child into her

There are only about 400 people in fashionable New York Society. If you go outside that number you strike people who are either not at ease in a ballroom or else make other people not at ease.