Quotes by Comfort You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect. Ernest Renan suffering comfort may We are able to breathe, drink, and eat in comfort because millions of organisms and hundreds of processes are operating to maintain a liveable environment, but we tend to take nature's services for granted because we don't pay money for most of them. Eugene Odum able comfort pay The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive. Eudora Welty novelists alive comfort Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all. Ernest Hemingway each-day comfort writing 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 Evelyn Waugh wine age comfort There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth. Faith Sullivan teeth differences comfort Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will-are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them. Fanny Kemble blessing names comfort It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat. Fannie Flagg religious comfort giving Comfort is the enemy of achievement. Farrah Gray achievement comfort enemy What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on which we build. F.B. Meyer anarchy foundation comfort I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort. Evelyn Waugh deaf comfort If I had my ministry over again, I would devote far more time to the ministry of comfort and encouragement. F.B. Meyer encouragement christian comfort Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. Finley Peter Dunne inherit-the-wind comfort stories Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. Finley Peter Dunne comfort doe running 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. Ezra Taft Benson simple prayer comfort 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. Flora Thompson philosopher comfort thinking I miss the comfort in being sad. Frances Farmer being-sad missing comfort If you are in danger, if your hearts are confused, turn to Mary; she is our comfort, our help; turn towards her and you will be saved. Frances Xavier Cabrini confused comfort heart Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation. Francine Rivers damnation restoration comfort Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is. Francis Collins venture important comfort «1314151617181920212223»