Consolation Quotes - Page 8

• Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Sex, Enough

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• But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Joy

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.47, Penguin

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• As for those who protest that I am robbing people of the great comfort and consolation they gain from Christianity, I can only say that Christianity includes hell, eternal torture for the vast majority of humanity, for most of your relatives and friends. . . . If I could feel that I had robbed anybody of his faith in hell, I should not be ashamed or regretful.

  Rupert Hughes

  Relatives And Friends, People, Humanity

  Rupert Hughes (1940). “Why I Quit Going to Church: With Answers to Critics and Correspondents”

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• If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

  Heloise

  Memories, Regret, Character

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• And some win peace who spend
  The skill of words to sweeten despair
  Of finding consolation where
  Life has but one dark end.

  Walter de La Mare

  Death, Dark, Winning

  Walter De la Mare (1941). “Collected poems”

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• Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

  Simone Weil

  Obstacles, Source, True Faith

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• I ran like a champion. It is a great consolation to show how dominant I am. I am the Olympic champion and the world champion, but I want Justin Gatlin to be the champion of everything.

  Justin Gatlin

  Champion, World, Want

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• Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Art, Children, Crowns

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873”, Lulu.com

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• But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should find consolation in the thought of the sacrifice.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Pain, Sacrifice, Use

  Gustave Flaubert (2015). “Greatest Works of Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary, Senitmental Education, November, A Simple Heart, Herodias and more”, p.193, e-artnow

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• Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Party, Food, Tea

  Louis Pullig De Gouy (1949). “The Soup Book: 770 Recipes”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Country, Prayer

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.535, Wildside Press LLC

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• A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.

  John Owen

  Good Day, Men, May

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

  R. C. Sproul

  Love, God, Christian

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2016

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• Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Country, People, Way

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• One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some had lost friends. Some had lost wives and lovers. All had lost portions of their youth. More important to the Sinatra career the girls started marrying the men who came home. Bobby socks vanished from many closets. The girls who wore them had no need anymore for imaginary lovers; they had husbands. Nothing is more embarrassing to grownups than the passions of adolescence, and for many, Frank Sinatra was the passion.

  Pete Hamill

  Girl, Husband, Passion

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• We are not entirely sure of the meaning of all of the symbolic stones and their placement. Neither Joseph Smith nor Brigham Young said too much about these. Brigham Young said, “Figures (symbols) are reduced to reality, and realities are exhibited by figures, and those who have the Spirit and understand, derive great comfort and consolation from that source.

  Loren C. Dunn

  Reality, Comfort, Stones

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• The man who is satisfied, because he thinks he is safe, who feels that he has religion enough, because he thinks he has enough to save him from hell, is as ignorant of the power as he is a stranger to the consolation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Gardiner Spring

  Jesus, Men, Thinking

  Gardiner Spring (1829). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.113

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• In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God; my husband died likewise, and in a short time there also died all my children. And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way and had prayed God that He would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, albeit I did also feel some grief.

  Angela of Foligno

  Family, Mother, Husband

  Angela (of Foligno) (1909). “The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno”

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• Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to share the fruition of his glory. We all indeed wish to be God with God, but God knows there are few of us who want to live as men with his Humanity, or want to carry his cross with him, or want to hang on the cross with him and pay humanity's debt to the full.

  Hadewijch

  Men, People, Humanity

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.61, Paulist Press

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• When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Feelings, Needs

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• For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

  John le Carre

  War, Huffing, Kind

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• There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,--now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Travel, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.103, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

  Anthony Storr

  Men, Creative, May

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• That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only in the fulfilling of His will, whether He lead us by suffering or by consolation, for all would be equal to a soul truly resigned

  Brother Lawrence

  Spiritual, Giving, Soul

  Brother Lawrence (2007). “The Practice of the Presence of God: The Original 17th Century Letters and Conversations of Brother Lawrence”, p.12, Xulon Press

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• Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our rest in thee. Israel's strength and consolation, hope of all the earth thou art, dear desire of every nation, joy of every longing heart.

  Charles Wesley

  Jesus, Art, Israel

  Charles Wesley, Frederic M. BIRD (1867). “Charles Wesley seen in his finer and less familiar poems. [A collection of his poems edited by F. M. Bird.]”, p.59

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