Comfort Quotes - Page 33

• Spiritual power is generated within temple walls, and sent out to bless the world ... Every home penetrated by the temple spirit enlightens, cheers, and comforts every member of the household. The peace we covet is found in such homes. Indeed, when temples are on earth, the whole world shares measurably in the issuing light; when absent, the hearts of men become heavy, as if they said, with the people of Enoch's day, 'Zion is fled'" (See Moses 7:69).

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Spiritual, Wall, Cheer

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• We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.

  Ouida

  Thinking, Giving, Want

  Ouida (1890*). “Othmar. Friendship. And other stories”

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• The less heart, the more comfort.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Heart

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• to comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Loneliness, Enough, Mortals

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• Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Sweet, Children, Spring

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• For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the cunning of doctors give consolation, nor riches deliver in time of need, nor a secret place to defend, if Thou, Lord, do not assist, help, comfort, counsel, inform, and defend.

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, Wise, Strong

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• Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Mother, Food, Mind

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.112, Open Road Media

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• The ultimate comfort zone is within.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Comfort Zone, Ultimate, Zone

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• What a comfort is friendship in this world.

  Virginia Woolf

  World, This World

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• Comfort and indolence are cronies.

  Thomas Hood

  Cronies, Indolence

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• Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

  Thomas Hood

  Blessing, Sorrow, Literature

  Thomas Hood, Frances F. Broderip (1860). “Memorials: In 2 Vol”, p.154

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• Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Bears, Fortitude

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• Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Learning, Men, Age

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• A sweet attractive kind of grace,
  A full assurance given by looks,
  Continual comfort in a face,
  The lineaments of Gospel books--
  I trow that countenance cannot lye
  Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Book, Eye

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• In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Flower, Grief

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.33

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• No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Country, Vote, Mankind

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• The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Breathing, Vulgarity Is, Moral

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• There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.

  Peg Bracken

  Food, Comforting, Forgotten

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

  May Sarton

  Conflict, Desperate, Dies

  May Sarton (2014). “Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine: Poems Selected and New”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• But though that place I never gain,
  Herein lies comfort for my pain:
  I will be worthy of it.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Pain, Lying, Gains

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.56, eBookIt.com

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• Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.

  Phillips Brooks

  Trouble, Infinite, Duty

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. Do not talk to him about the interests and rights of the human race; that little private business of his for the moment absorbs all his thoughts, and he hopes that public disturbances can be put off to some other time.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Rights, Race, Selfishness

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• Evils have their comfort, good none can support.

  George Herbert

  Evil, Support

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.298

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• We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.

  William Cowper

  Sacrifice, Joy, Dresses

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.210

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• Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.

  Henry Fielding

  Art, Giving, Mind

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