Quotes About Comfort

the more you try to get reality to fit within your comfort zone, the more unprepared you are to deal with a world full of surprise, complexity, and change. Likewise, if we persist in trying to get our relationships to conform to our expectations instead of letting them be how they actually are, we may miss important opportunities to know ourselves and others more deeply.

From the cradle to the grave, humans desire a certain someone who will look out for them, notice and value them, soothe their wounds, reassure them in life's difficult places, and hold them in the dark.

Then suddenly he reached out and took her hand. "Why did you do that?" she asked softly. He looked up at the snowflakes, let them fall, melt on his face, turning it shiny. "Because when it's slippery out, sometimes we just need someone to hang on to until we find our footing.

God doesn't promise to keep the storm away, but He says He'll be with me through it. My faith won't protect me from the loss, but it will carry me and keep me from despair.~page 195

They want you to know they care. They heard about Kasha. Besides, this is the Minnesota way. We demonstrate affection through hot dish.

But suffering can either destroy you or it can save you. Because without suffering, we don't need more; we have enough. But when we suffer, we can't help but reach out. It forces us into God's arms, and that's where we find not only what we need, but more than we can imagine. We find Him.

You have to believe that no matter what happens, you're going to be okay. That God's grace is enough.

Sometimes God gives us safe places to retreat so we can come back healed.

We are never more loved than by our God. Our refuge and strength.

God is still in control. He didn't take His eyes off you that day and say "Ooh whoops. Now Wyatt is off the rails. He's been with you- and Coco- every step of the way

Apart from you, I have no good thing,' and that God fills him with joy in His presence. It helps me remember that I'm not alone.

Then you shouldn't have a thing to worry about," Mattie told her, still refusing to let go of the case Harvey had

But heaven seems a place where truth cannot hurt. Here, the truth can be devastating.

It's that sacred place where your soul is at rest because all the people you love most are there.

and that if she ever needs to talk to her or touch her, she need only go to Belinda's peach tree and put her arms around it, and Candace will whisper to her through the branches that all is well.

Home isn't a place where everything stays the same; it's a place where you are safe and loved despite nothing staying the same. Change always happens. Always.

The picture of her on that sofa with Kat sitting next to her on a blanket with Sarah in her lap is a beautiful image I know I will always remember.

Supper is stew and dumplings and apple brown betty for dessert, and, oh, how wonderful the simple meal tastes.

Home isn't a place where everything stays the same; it's a place where you are safe and loved despite nothing staying the same.

When darkness falls completely and Martin is still not home, I light the stove and place pork cutlets that I rubbed with butter and dried sage into a roasting pan alongside potatoes and carrots so that supper will be ready when he finally returns.

even though dogs break your heart, they fill it up, even when they're gone.

I know now that even though dogs break your heart, they fill it up, even when they're gone.

The library is an easy place to be when you have no place you need to go and a desire to be invisible.

bookshelves-full-of-books family.