Quotes about Comfort

In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.

God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.

Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Another thing he speaks of as matter of comfort is, that as he had approved himself to his own conscience, so he had also to the consciences of his hearers, the Corinthians, whom he now wrote to, and that they should approve of him at the day of judgment. 3.

There is no comfort, I find, in any enjoyment, without enjoying God, and being engaged in his service.

Your Father's greatest desire for you is that you would be like Him, that you would be holy. He cares more about your transformation than your happiness, more about your spiritual maturity than your comfort.

God wants more than anything to let us know he is with us. He sees what we are going through and he cares. Furthermore, he is such a big God that he can afford to deal with us on an intimate level, to encourage us and to wink at us and to hold our hands when we need him to do that.

What he needed desperately was someone to whom he might unburden himself, someone who would understand and know what to do, someone with the wisdom to remind him of what he needed to be reminded of just now—of God's grace—of the upside of God's love.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. They should remain open. Our only comfort is the God of the resurrection, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who also was and is his God. In him we know our brothers and in him is the biding fellowship of those who have overcome and those who still await their hour. God be praised for our dead brother and be merciful to us all at our end.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

This was hell then; it wasn't anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room.