Quotes on Comforting

Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted chorus line dancing with the moon, the wind, the clouds framing bursts of stars tender rugged celebration absorbing and releasing life each holy branch holding the power of the Universe. There.

God's love has a width, length, height, and depth, but we will never reach the end of it. Our capacity to experience God's love will be exhausted long before God's capacity to give it is strained. The picture of having Christ dwell inside us by faith presents us with compelling and comforting possibilities. What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That," he said, softly, "is a terrible self-indictment." Worse than an unanswered prayer? "Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Don't censor yourself to comfort their ignorance.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner. - Here we are at the rubber mask factory. Look at the nice men and woman working on the masks.