Best 1738 quotes in «comfort quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.

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

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.

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.

Rapport equals trust plus comfort.

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

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

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

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

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

Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.

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.

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

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.

Risk, then, is not just part of life. It is life. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place. It's the high-anxiety zone, but it's also where you discover who you are.

Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet.

Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.

Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. I reach out for him and say something like his name and he's there, holding me and patting my back. "It's okay. It'll be okay, sweetheart." He sits me on a length of broken marble pillar and keeps an arm around me while I sob.

"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

She took comfort in the soft occasional sound of turning pages.

Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

Sickness and disease are a change in awareness from comfort to discomfort.

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal to escape, his calmness in the face of death , and his contention that the perpetrator of injustice injures himself more than his victim, all fitted in perfectly with Stoic teaching. So did his indifference to heat and cold, his plainness in matters of food and dress, and his complete independence of all bodily comforts.

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying, desperately addicted to the comforts others sell them, however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life defined for them by men whose only talent is for death.

Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.

So long as we use comfort and security as our criteria of success, we will fear our own intuitive guidance because by its very nature it directs us into new cycles of learning that are sometimes uncomfortable.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom.

Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember.

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.

So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.

Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.