Quotes About Comfort

Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention.

More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humiliations that attended contact with the world outside.

Meg forgot about cautioning him to be quiet. She forgot about everything but watching the care with which he wrapped a blanket around Mama Warner before gingerly lifting her into his arms and cradling her against his chest. "Comfortable?" he asked. "You know how to hold a woman so she feels precious. Makes me wish I was sixty years younger.

Somewhere to take shelter from the elements but not the storms of life.

He cradled her cheek and turned her head slightly, until their gazes met. "For whatever comfort this might bring you in the nights that follow, know this... when I thought death was a certainty, I chose a collection of memories that revolved around you to carry into the dark with me.

Once they were beyond hearing, Miss Darling said, "The upstairs is rather boring. It's only bedchambers." "I've never found bedchambers to be boring.

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

You know you're getting older when the first thing you do after you're done eating is look for a place to lie down.

God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions

Comfort and familiarity are not what God points us toward. Jesus isn't in the business of flying to and fro for the rest of our lives, hand-delivering spiritual baby food to us.

Joseph said to them, " 'You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.' Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them" (vv. 20–21).

It changes your outlook to know that almighty God is in every circumstance with you.

Te quiero dar una indicación concreta. Es esta: sumérgete en el salmo 23, y hazlo durante cuarenta mañanas y cuarenta noches. Lo puedes hacer directamente, leyendo una Biblia, o leyendo o escuchando el pasaje en una computadora, tableta o teléfono celular.

God has everyone and everything that's surrounding you surrounded.

Be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." —HEBREWS 13:5 NIV

Het mooie van onze verbeelding is voor ons, die geen menschen van doen zijn, de troost van ons leven.

O, laat het verleden herinnering zijn, heilige herinneringen, goudene herinneringen, maar zie nu aan het heden! O, laat het heden je troosten, het heden, klein, nederig en arm.

There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

The argument was wilful, The alternatives untrue, We need no metaphysics To sanction what we do Or to muffle us in comfort From what we did not do.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

A house needs a grandma in it.