Comfort Quotes

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

~ Cecelia Ahern

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

~ Betty Smith

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

~ Jane Austen

But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

~ A.a. Milne

A tiger only needs three things to be comfortable. Lots of food, sleep, and…actually, no it’s just those two things.

~ Colleen Houck

I count my blessings as follows:1) I'm alive.2) Beauty is in the world all around me.3) I share my love with everyone and not just a select few.4) I give thanks to whoever made and created us no matter which religion it my be.5) I never stop smiling, laughing and being happy.6) I try and help those who need it the most.7) I try not to hate, injure or kill anything or anyone.8) I share what I have even if I don't have a much.9) I write and share my thoughts so that it may bring comfort to other people.10) I never ask for anything for me from anyone.11) I follow the other 10 blessings.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

The beauty of having faith, is that no matter what the time of day, whether it be day or night I know that someone is always there with me to give me comfort.It doesn't matter whether it is Buddha, God or Allah because whoever it is, is special to each of us. And that is the beauty of having faith.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

~ Julien Smith

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

~ Swami Vivekananda

There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan... Jesus is the way, the truth and the life... The Holy Spirit of God is the Comforter...

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth -- only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.

~ C.s. Lewis

God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of the trial and in the exaltation after the combat.

~ Padre Pio

I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.

~ Luci Shaw

It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back.

~ Anthony Liccione

She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Having a rather pessimistic outlook on life makes for the best philosophical discussions, distress is the only real reason to question something, comfort often leads to the inability to change.

~ Moryah Demott

IN THE HANDS OF MANHe who creates a poison, also has the cure.He who creates a virus, also has the antidote.He who creates chaos, also has the ability to create peace.He who sparks hate, also has the ability to transform it to love.He who creates misery, also has the ability to destroy it with kindness.He who creates sadness, also has the ability to to covert it to happiness.He who creates darkness, can also be awakened to produce illumination.He who spreads fear, can also be shaken to spread comfort.Any problems created by the left hand of man,Can also be solved with the right,For he who manifests anything,Also has the ability toDestroy it.

~ Suzy Kassem

So dry your tears. Fortune has not yet turned her hatred against all your blessings. The storm has not yet broken upon you with too much violence. Your anchors are holding firm and they permit you both comfort in the present, and hope in the future.

~ Boethius

Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.' Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. 'Bright songs and the magic of hope are but a dangerous illusion. The fake comfort of witches charms.

~ Robert Fanney

Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.

~ William Peter Blatty

Lifeless life is the very thing Jesus came to rescue us from.

~ Erin M. Straza

I believe that life is full of tragedy. Some lives more than others. But I also believe that comfort can be found with the people that love you . . . if you're willing to let them give it.

~ Eliza Maxwell

Don't give up when dark times come. The more storms you face in life, the stronger you'll be. Hold on. Your greater is coming.

~ Germany Kent

Heaven is a place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it's white, and looking at it, instead of saying Oh that's nice blossom ... last week looking at it through the window when I'm writing, I see it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it. Things are both more trivial than they ever were, and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter. But the nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous, and if people could see that, you know. There's no way of telling you; you have to experience it, but the glory of it, if you like, the comfort of it, the reassurance ... not that I'm interested in reassuring people - bugger that. The fact is, if you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

~ Dennis Potter

For it is up to you and meto take solacein nostalgia's armsand our abilityto create the everlastingfrom fleeting moments.

~ Sanober Khan

There is such a shelter in each other.

~ Nick Laird

Foggy nights bring some comfort.He can get lost in the mistand there is no one to stare or question.

~ Susie Clevenger

We need to retrain our brains, our hearts, and our wills to seek a comfort that truly satisfies.

~ Erin M. Straza

By extending love and comfort to the broken places around us, we keep watch with Jesus in his sorrow.

~ Erin M. Straza

What if our common sense has been negatively influenced by our addiction to comfort?

~ Erin M. Straza

Scarcity mentality measures out life by the ounce, it always concludes that the needs outweigh the resources.

~ Erin M. Straza

The abundant life Jesus spoke of isn't opposed to the material, but it consists of more than just the material.

~ Erin M. Straza

When I harvest my life right up to the edges, I have collected every last kernel of blessing.

~ Erin M. Straza

I have pursued the comfort of things, when all along Comfort is a Person.

~ Erin M. Straza

Do I believe that God is right here, ready to be my comfort in every situation?

~ Erin M. Straza

The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.

~ Kate Mcgahan