Quotes about Comfort

She was enfolded in the great wings of Mrs. Whatsit and she felt comfort and strength pouring through her. Mrs. Whatsit was not speaking aloud, and yet through the wings Meg understood words. My child, do not despair. Do you think we would have brought you here if there was no hope? We are asking you to do a difficult thing, but we are confident that you can do it. Your father needs help, he needs courage, and for his children he may be able to do what he cannot do for himself.

God doesn't stop the bad things from happening; that's never been part of the promise. The promise is: I am with you. I am with you now until the end of time.

John looked up from where he was crouched beside the fire, feeding it little bites of driftwood, and said, 'We'd better decide who wants hot dogs and who wants hamburgers because we haven't got too much time.' Everybody began talking about food, and things were better. There's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

God doesn't plan the horrors. They happen. But God can come into them.

What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been before or ever would be again, anything that would chill her with a fear beyond the possibility of comfort?

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.

Our love one's are never gone, they have just popped into another room.

God's love, and I begin to long for God's love in a very different sense from which I have sought it so selfishly—as a comfort, a joy, a happiness, and a pleasure to myself. I will not learn it until I realize that "God is love."

This is throughout scripture the great central promise: I am with you.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.