Quotes about Comfort
simple availability is the most powerful force we can contribute to help calm the fears of others. Instinctively, I shrink back from people who are in pain.
— Philip Yancey
Naturalist John Muir concluded sadly, "It is a great comfort … that vast multitudes of creatures, great and small and infinite in number, lived and had a good time in God's love before man was created.
— Philip Yancey
Nothing else — no learned "how-to" program, no expensive gift — is worth more to the sufferer than the comfortable assurance of your physical presence.
— Philip Yancey
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
— Philip Yancey
the same answer from suffering people: it matters little what we say — our concern and availability matter far more.
— Philip Yancey
the same answer from suffering people: it matters little what we say — our concern and availability matter far more. If we can offer a listening ear, that may be the most appreciated gift of all.
— Philip Yancey
by embracing grief and standing beside the hurting person, we can indeed aid another's search for meaning.
— Philip Yancey
Perhaps the greatest way to give suffering people time is being patient with them — giving them room to doubt, cry, question and work out strong and often extreme emotions.
— Philip Yancey
a suffering person needs: love, and not knowledge and wisdom.
— Philip Yancey
The warmth of that embrace overpowered Levi's pain. He had never felt so engulfed in love, except when his own father would give him one of his big bear hugs. He felt tears well in his eyes, knowing that whatever happened, he would still be loved well.
— Priscilla Shirer
I realize now that God has been with me every step of my life - through the suffering.
— Jeremy Camp
In the Bible there is that which meets every need of man, which answers every mood, which speaks to every heart.
— J. Gresham Machen