Quotes about Comfort

Where is hope to be found? In five life-altering words: "I am with you always.

It says that he is with us wherever we go (Gen. 28:15).

The Bible welcomes us to bring our cares to God because he cares for us (1 Pet. 5:7).

It tells us that he will never leave us or forsake us (Heb. 13:5).

There is a God of awesome grace who meets his children in moments of darkness and difficulty. He is worth running to. He is worth waiting for. He brings rest when it seems like there is no rest to be found.

If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours—always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or if the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness…. Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: "You are accepted."

The presence of God is not a burden to bear!

A prayer room is first and foremost a living room—a place where the Father waits for his children to come and climb into his arms.

I'd rather be unhappy and know that God is with me, than be happy, comfortable and unsure of God's presence.

I like a prayer book and liturgy to guide me in my faith rather than falling back into my comfort zone of controlling reality with my learned and carefully chosen words, and without leaving it up to me to come up with what to say here and now when I just may not feel like it.

One of the great comforts of Israel's epic is that it contains raw expressions of fierce doubt and lack of trust in God embraced by the ancient Israelites as part of their faith. I am thankful to God for this Bible rather than a sanitized one where spiritual struggles of the darkest kind are brushed aside as a problem to be fixed rather than accepted as part of the journey of faith.