Quotes about Comfort
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
— Teresa of Avila
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
— Victor Hugo
God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions.
— Louie Giglio
Heaven is a place where God will personally wipe away our tears.
— RC Sproul
To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
— DA Carson
I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.
— Barack Obama
We want the safety of yesterday even though we know it's not where God would have us.
— Charles Swindoll
True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
— Philip Yancey
When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.
— Cormac McCarthy
If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.
— Timothy Keller
Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.
— Max Lucado
God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.
— Paul David Tripp