Quotes about Comfort

Having your house fill up with the people you love is comforting.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

I like hugging who I like to hug and I want to be hugged by whom I want to hug.

Some people who suffer run away from God, and I know the tendency, but instead I just run to Him.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

He didn't give me any of the solutions I begged and bargained for. All God gave me was Himself. His presence. And even though I didn't recognize it at the time, the grace of His presence was sufficient. His abiding Spirit was like the moon. A sliver of comfort and light rising even on the darkest night.

In our darkest moments, when we cry out to God and wonder if He's listening, He sometimes whispers, Wait. It's a hard word to hear yet comforting as well. It means He is there, He is with us, and He has a plan, even if it is not our plan.

But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary; …" Luke 1:30 How like the Lord to identify our fears and hasten to ease them. Notice that Gabriel called her by name: "Mary, you have nothing to fear" (MSG). God knew her name just as he knows ours.

Job endured everything — until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

He says, Come unto me, etc., etc., then, by reason of the situation which furnishes the more express understanding, the consequences will always be exposure to danger, perhaps to mortal danger. On the other hand, where all are Christians, the situation is this: to call oneself a Christian is the means whereby one secures oneself against all sorts of inconveniences and discomforts, and the means whereby one secures worldly goods, comforts, profit, etc., etc.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.