Quotes About Comfort

Sometimes, when he was older, and especially after he became taller than his mother, he would put his arms around her and silently hold her, and feel her pain right through the fold of his embrace.

Never forget, she used to tell him, that Jesus loves you. Personally he'd never felt this and, even if it had been true, would have gained little consolation—for who wanted to be loved by someone who loved everybody? And then only because it was their job.

When Venalicius had carried her far across the Land of Blue to the Land of Red, the only familiar thing had been the stars in the sky. At Flavia's house she had slept in the inner garden with Scuto, comforted by his furry warmth and by the familiar constellations overhead. But tonight she could see no stars. Tonight there was nothing to remind her of home and who she had been.

we are safely contained within a small

We remain terrified that by acknowledging Divine will—by surrendering our will to a greater will—we will become separated from all that brings us physical comfort.

Surrender to Divine authority means liberation from physical illusions, not from the delights and comfort of physical life.

From the sefirah of Keter, symbolic of our connection to the world of the infinite, we receive the knowledge that there is no death; there is only life. No one has gone before us whom we will not meet again—that is a Divine promise. We are meant to rest in the comfort and power of that sacred truth.

Do just-friends sleep all tangled up like a bunch of baby granddaddy long-legged spiders?

God bless the corners of this house, and be the lintel blest, and bless the hearth and bless the board and bless each place of rest, and bless each door that opens wide to stranger as to kin. And bless each crystal window pane that lets the starlight in, and bless the rooftree overhead and every sturdy wall. The peace of man, the peace of God, the peace of love on all. Amen.

MAY GOD GRANT YOU ALWAYS A SUNBEAM TO WARM YOU A MOONBEAM TO CHARM YOU A SHELTERING ANGEL SO NOTHING CAN HARM YOU LAUGHTER TO CHEER YOU FAITHFUL FRIENDS NEAR YOU AND WHENEVER YOU PRAY HEAVEN TO HEAR YOU.

God's arms. You light up the

Friends and family, and a man who loved her just the way she was. Life didn't get a bit better than that!

Is he asleep? Finn whispered. Out like a light. He thinks he's too big to crawl into bed with me so when he as the nightmares, we sleep on the sofa the rest of the night. So you are the nightmare whisperer, he chuckled. What? Like the horse whisperer. Only you banish nightmares with your presence. Damn, Callie! I wish I'd have known that two years ago. I would have looked you up and slept on the sofa with you, he said.

What would Betsy tell Marty about poor

What did I do wrong with my children? Everett tries to comfort me, but I feel like a complete failure.

God bless the woman who'd invented air-conditioning. Okay, it might have been a man, but I'll bet you dollars to earthworms that a woman nagged him into it.

Oh. My. Sweet. Lord, she gasped. If every time gets more intense, we'll burn out the relationship, he said hoarsely. But what a way to go. She nestled down into the crook of his arm when he shifted his weight to one side.

No place is lonely if you are happy there

After breakfast, Callie found herself in the living room alone, warming her hands by the fire, when Finn came out of his bedroom. He crossed the room, pulled Callie close to his chest, and said, I wanted to hold you all morning and tell you that I slept better in that recliner last night than I do in my big king-sized bed. I believe it's because you were right there and you kept the nightmares at bay.

A house isn't a real home without some past, present, and future in it.

late. She'd barely gotten comfortable

My mother used to tell me, "Things always look worse at night." For the most part, I believe her. But some of the troubles that keep me from sleeping look just as bad in the morning.

Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

Us going to have a cup of coffee. Then maybe it all won't seem so bad.