Quotes about Comfort
I used to worry about falling asleep during prayer. Now, as a parent, I understand. What parent wouldn't want her child to fall asleep in her arms?
- Philip Yancey
Who helped you most? Most often they (suffering people) answer by describing a quiet, unassuming person. Someone who was there whenever needed, who listened more than talked, who didn't keep glancing down at a watch, who hugged and touched, and cried. In short, someone who was available, and came on the sufferer's terms and not their own.
- Philip Yancey
Those who mourn sense the rupture of a world severed from God and thus edge closer to the Father who promises to make all things new.
- Philip Yancey
simple availability is the most powerful force we can contribute to help calm the fears of others. Instinctively, I shrink back from people who are in pain.
- Philip Yancey
Naturalist John Muir concluded sadly, "It is a great comfort … that vast multitudes of creatures, great and small and infinite in number, lived and had a good time in God's love before man was created.
- Philip Yancey
Nothing else — no learned "how-to" program, no expensive gift — is worth more to the sufferer than the comfortable assurance of your physical presence.
- Philip Yancey
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
- Philip Yancey
the same answer from suffering people: it matters little what we say — our concern and availability matter far more.
- Philip Yancey
the same answer from suffering people: it matters little what we say — our concern and availability matter far more. If we can offer a listening ear, that may be the most appreciated gift of all.
- Philip Yancey
by embracing grief and standing beside the hurting person, we can indeed aid another's search for meaning.
- Philip Yancey
Perhaps the greatest way to give suffering people time is being patient with them — giving them room to doubt, cry, question and work out strong and often extreme emotions.
- Philip Yancey
a suffering person needs: love, and not knowledge and wisdom.
- Philip Yancey