Best 1738 quotes in «comfort quotes» category

Our grocery store now has self-checkout, for your convenience. It's like getting punched in the throat, for your comfort.

Our Lord even gives you suffering that you might share the comfort you receive from Him with somebody who is suffering!

Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults.

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.

Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.

Pasta is my favorite comfort food, but sometimes my body really wants a steak, and I'll have one.

Pastors are sent to utter the deep things of God for the conviction of sin, and for edification and comfort.

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.

People are more comfortable with the familiar. It takes selling a big dream that comes with excellent income possibility to get someone to leave his or her comfort zone.

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

People keep planning their lives searching security and comfort. This silence is the only security I know those who can understand will understand.

People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.

Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.

Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness.

Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.

Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.

Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

Prosperity isn't defined by money alone; it encompasses time, love, success, joy, comfort, beauty, and wisdom.

Professionally, I don’t necessarily have to adhere to a certain dress code. However, I think that comfort is crucial. Otherwise, you won’t be able to have fun and express yourself.

Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.

Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a few conversations around the cafeteria.

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

Religion should not only comfort us when we are disturbed; it should also disturb us when we are comfortable.

Rapport equals trust plus comfort.

Really anything can happen at any time and we are very addicted to comfort. Life is just not always comfortable.

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and who is unfortunate?" He replied: "He was fortunate who ate and sowed, and he was unfortunate who died without having enjoyed.

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.