Comfort Quotes - Page 37

• Don't touch the ark of God! It is the God of Israel who is wounding people with regards to their sin. Do NOT comfort the soul that God is breaking.

  Paul Washer

  Israel, People, Soul

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• There is no comfort in change But also no learning in the Steady drone of peace. There will be no greater sorrow Than watching you go - Except for watching you grow old And tired here - Clarity awaits Elsewhere

  S. D. Perry

  Peace, Learning, Tired

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• We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

  Uplifting, Prayer, Pain

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• My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement.

  Amy B. Lyman

  Courage, Anchors, Joy

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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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• Your angels are giving you strength and comfort right now.

  Doreen Virtue

  Angel, Giving, Right Now

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Sep 03, 2014

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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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• 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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• 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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• A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.

  Blaise Pascal

  Littles, Little Things, Trifles

  Blaise Pascal, Thomas Adam, Edward Bickersteth (1833). “Thoughts on religion”, p.121

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• Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

  Gail Godwin

  Success, Flying, Chance

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• Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Country, Sea, Pennsylvania

  Rebecca Harding Davis (2010). “Rebecca Harding Davis's Stories of the Civil War Era: Selected Writings from the Borderlands”, p.20, University of Georgia Press

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• Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

  Edmund Burke

  Religion, Source, Bases

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.560, Transaction Publishers

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• Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, West, Cynicism

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Good Luck, Years

  Jane Austen (2006). “Mansfield Park Volume I [Easyread Comfort Edition]”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.

  Agnes Repplier

  Travel, Light, Landscape

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

  Rebecca West

  Sympathy, Running, Hurt

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Judge”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

  Dorothy Day

  Writing, Simple, Reality

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• The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

  Laurence Sterne

  Adversity, May, Dropping

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: The sermons of Mr. Yorick”, p.420

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• We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.

  Barbara Holland

  Mother, Children, Pampering

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• A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort.

  Patricia Hampl

  Crush, Father, Historical

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions

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• Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.

  Lillian Hellman

  Children, Pain, Memories

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