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• [Cloning] can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them, it will be faint consolation to the dead one that the other one is still running around, even though they are genetically identical. So the road to immortality is not through cloning.

  Arthur Caplan

  Running, Different, Cloning

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• The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.

  Beilby Porteus

  Exercise, Blessing, Joy

  Beilby Porteus (1823). “Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, late Bishop of London: with his life”, p.13

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• My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Letting Go, Brother, Suffering

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• Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.

  Donald Wuerl

  Children, People, Joy

  "CBB Interview with Cardinal Donald Wuerl". Interview with Pete Socks, www.patheos.com. April 13, 2014.

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• Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but few desire His tribulation. He finds many comrades in eating and drinking, but He finds few hands who will be with Him in His abstinence and fastingBut those who love Jesus purely for Himself, and not for their own profit or convenience, bless Him as heartily in temptation and tribulation and in all other adversities as they do in time of consolation. And if He never sent them consolation, they would still bless and praise Him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Jesus, Drinking, Adversity

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• Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him immediately by an empirical method. But you cannot meet God this way...A contemplative attitude is necessary: it is the feeling that you are moving along the good path of understanding and affection toward things and situations. Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God, and love of all things in God-this is the sign that you are on this right path.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Attitude

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• The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic existence.

  Peter Blegvad

  Real, Goal, Magic

  Interview with Franklin Bruno, believermag.com. November 1, 2009.

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• No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.

  Nancy Thayer

  Light, Wind, Sea

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• The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.

  Sigmund Freud

  May, Effects, Narcotics

  SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

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• When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Charity, Neighbor, Instruction

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales”, p.13, Aeterna Press

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• As we move closer and closer to a nonsexist world, women will have an equal opportunity as men to be rejected, embarrassed, and humiliated beyond all consolation.

  Linda Sunshine

  Moving, Opportunity, Men

  Linda Sunshine (1989). “Women Who Date Too Much”, Plume

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• What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or of boredom when we pray. A clear understanding that the value of our prayer does not depend upon how we feel is extremely important if we are to persevere in prayer. So many people feel that if their prayer is distracted it cannot be pleasing to God, and are therefore led to abandon their efforts precisely when fidelity is of the most importance.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Prayer, People, Boredom

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• Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Genius, World, Fool

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• But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. His reason revolts against his creed. He sees that none of its articles are proved, or can be proved.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Paine (1854). “The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...”, p.260

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• Yet the women's misery is socually invisible. Despite our education and accomplishments, we are expected to keep our mouths shut and accept our infertility treatments as consolation prize. Our jobs are supposed to be our highest priority. We are expected to overlook the connection between our disappointment, the impossible ideology of equality, and the contraception that makes that ideology appear to be possible.

  Jennifer Morse

  Jobs, Disappointment, Accomplishment

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• In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world: and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world, and another in the next.

  Philip Neri

  Giving, Doe, World

  Saint Philip Neri, Faber, Frederick William Faber (1995). “If God be with Us: The Maxims of St. Philip Neri”, p.47, Gracewing Publishing

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• All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Soul, Comfort, Doe

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• He who embraces the cross and bears it with patience lightens the weight of the cross. Indeed, the weight itself becomes a consolation; for God abounds with grace to all those who carry the cross with good will in order to please him.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Order, Grace, Weight

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• In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

  Willis Gaylord Clark

  Voice, Mourning, Sorrow

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• Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Firsts, Bears, Steps

  Patricia Wentworth (1958). “The Alington inheritance”

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• If the nobles of the country really have the welfare of the people at heart, they should prevent and forbid music wherever it makes an appearance. For the fact that the people practise music has four disadvantages. The hungry are not fed, the cold are not clothed, the homeless are not sheltered and the desperate find no consolation.

  John Tilbury

  Country, Heart, People

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• I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!

  Charles Dickens

  Encouragement, Support, Heaven

  Jan Fields, Charles Dickens (2010). “David Copperfield”, p.331, Calico Chapter Books

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• The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean, Restoration, Body

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.82, Penguin

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• Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Men, Given

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sorrow, Increase, Deep Sorrow

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