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Quotes About Comfort

Commandment 9: Knowing how to distinguish between comfort and discomfort will help you to focus on the most important behaviors for decoding nonverbal communications.
~ Joe Navarro
T]hose who refuse to consider what they do are cloaked in the shadow of stupidity, but they enjoy the shade. It is cool and comfortable there.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
We, at the present day, can hardly understand the keenness with which a fur coat, a good fire on the hearth, a soft bed, a glass of wine, were formerly enjoyed.
~ Johan Huizinga
you are so unhappy, because you know no one who can help you. Think what a comfort it is when the heart is heavy with grief to be able at any moment to go and tell everything to God, and pray Him for the help that no one else can give us. And He can help us and give us everything that will make us happy again.
~ Johanna Spyri
My heart is sad, my eyes grow dim, Yet do I put my trust in Him, And in due time, all sorrow past, In safety home I'll come at last.
~ Johanna Spyri
acuérdate que mañana estaré otra vez a tu lado, y que ya no has de balar con tanta tristeza.
~ Johanna Spyri
The most beautiful thing of all, though, is to be able to shake hands again with an old friend, as in days gone by; it is a great comfort to find again, what we have treasured.
~ Johanna Spyri
The happiest of all things is when an old friend comes and greets us as in former times; the heart is comforted with the assurance that someday everything that we have loved will be given back to us.—
~ Johanna Spyri
Ah, Heidi, that brings light to the heart! What comfort you have brought me!
~ Johanna Spyri
Is it possible! is it really possible! so the dear God has not forgotten us! exclaimed the grandmother.
~ Johanna Spyri
No one knows what it is to lie here alone day after day, in silence and darkness, without hearing a voice or seeing a ray of light. Sad thoughts come over me, and I do not feel sometimes as if I could bear it any longer or as if it could ever be light again. But when you come and read those words to me, then I am comforted and my heart rejoices once more.
~ Johanna Spyri
Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
~ John and Stasi Eldredge
When love hurts you, friendship will heal you.
~ John Arthur
Be a friend on whose chest your friends could freely lay their heads, whose shoulders they could joyfully stand, and in whose presence they could happily run to.
~ John Arthur
Don't drive people away with your presence. Your friends shouldn't become afraid and so cautious when they are with you. Let them feel free around you.
~ John Arthur
Children ran to sit on Jesus' lap. John placed his head on His chest. Nicodemus went to wake Him up at night. Like Jesus, just be a friend in whose presence others can feel loved.
~ John Arthur
Friendship with children is the best atmosphere in a home.
~ John Arthur
God says in Jeremiah 6:14: They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. 'Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace.
~ Unknown
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." MATTHEW 11:28
~ Unknown
Shout for joy, you heavens; rejoice, you earth; burst into song, you mountains! For the LORD comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones." ISAIAH 49:13
~ Unknown
Of the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works.
~ John Banville
It is a true pleasure to live in a century in which such great events take place, provided that one can take shelter in some little corner and watch the play in comfort. (attributed to N. Poussin)
~ John Banville
I hadn't eaten anything at lunch, yet I wasn't hungry. The belly knows when it's not going to be fed and, like an old dog, settles down to sleep. That's how it is, I find, with the creature and its comforts, so that all is not ill, and sometimes the Lord does temper the wind to the shorn lamb.
~ John Banville
These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.
~ John Berryman