Comforting Quotes
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.
Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.
We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn’t it comforting to know God isn’t ever broken? He isn’t ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next.
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.
Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.
We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifyin g, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God.
No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.
They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.
It isn't enough to just be on the journey; we must be awake to our duty and continue with faith as we draw upon the comforting, strengthening, enabling, and healing power of the Atonement.
Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.
A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.
One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.
There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.
That all of God’s men are immortal until God is through with them is a wonderful comforting thought for today. And when He is through with you, He will remove you from the earth.
The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation after the combat.
We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.
Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.
I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.
Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
I feel the calmest when I'm drawing or when I'm creating images. I love connecting the mind with the hand and producing something - that is very comforting and centering for me.
There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.
If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.
I just think that things get easier as you get older and wiser and more experienced. You get more confident about who you are as you get older. I find that really comforting.
What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
