Quotes About Comfort

In thinking of home, we have to move beyond considering home as a physical address. We have to start asking what home feels like. My

Feeling at home is the feeling that I can just be myself. It

Fear is not to be dismissed. A moment of fear is actually a message that we are in a new and unfamiliar place within the network of interdependence. Fear is the awkwardness of stepping into a new neighborhood of our mind. Dismissing it actually keeps us comfortable for even less time than a poorly made pair of expensive sneakers. But if we let it in, something new and unexpected is bound to happen.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

Todas as casas onde há livros e quadros e discos são bonitas. E são feias todas as casas, por mais luxuosas, onde faltem essas coisas." ?Eugénio de Andrade

And so we gain hope—not from the darkness of our suffering, not from pat answers in books, but from the God who sees our suffering and shares our pain.

Lamentations is insurance against premature comfort, against "healing the wounds of my people lightly" During the time of ruin there are always those who attempt to cover the wounds of judgment with band-aid comfort. But comfort cannot function apart from a serious grappling with the pain of judgment.

Full of hope, you'll relax, confident again; you'll look around, sit back, and take it easy.

God comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us.-2 Corinthians 1:4

re: Matthew 4) " 'Give in for now': what a strange thing for Jesus to say to a steadfast and protesting prophet; and yet what a comforting thing for those of us who cannot live in fiercely absolute ways. ... Jesus the Lord enters our life as it is and calls us not away but more deeply into it.

Suddenly a phrase jumps out: "…I would say be very wary of anyone telling you you're suffering for a reason…" I forget the question that this was the response to.

The more comfortable we are, research suggests, the more destruction we are likely to be causing.

When I stepped onto the bridge over the Iowa River and stood looking out across the water, I knew I was home. I was wrong about that, as it turns out. And I know now that my certainty was based on a series of troubling misconceptions, but it would be years before I would lose the comfort that certainty gave me.

I bent over, sick, and leaned my head against the softness of his stomach. He wrapped his arms around me, rocking gently. He said, "We should take you to the ocean, maybe that's what you need to feel better." He sang into my ear, under his breath. Silly songs. "That's the recipe for making love…

A sweet thing, for whatever time,to revisit in dreams the dear dead we have lost.

When you're sad, Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

And then, because they were both Englishwomen and their hearts were somewhat broken, they turned back into the room and put on the kettle and made themselves a cup of tea.

it had been no hardship to grow up in his brother's shadow. Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

I wouldn't have missed it for the world," said Mrs. Bridge, smiling all around, "and I feel awfully lucky. Even so we were certainly glad to see the Union Station. I suppose no matter how far you go there's no place like home." She could see they agreed with her, and surely what she had said was true, yet she was troubled and for a moment she was almost engulfed by a nameless panic.

Heal me? You're trying to heal me by rubbing your…by rubbing against me?" Kat didn't even try to keep the skepticism out of her voice. "Yeah, right.

It's all right, Lilenta," Baird whispered soothingly in her ear. "All right now. Nothing's gonna hurt you. I've got you." Liv

What I loved about breast-feeding was that bond of one-on-one time. The serotonin that's released calms you down and connects you to the baby.