Quotes about Comfort

I had to get honest enough to admit it: I relied on food more than I relied on God. I craved food more than I craved God. Food was my comfort. Food was my reward. Food was my joy. Food was what I turned to in times of stress, sadness, and even in times of happiness.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. (2 Corinthians 1:3—4)

I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.

We would like to picture goodness as being synonymous with safety.

If strangers and strange sights can shake the world of children, it takes the people they know and love best to pull it out from under them like a chair.

Jesus, thank you that you are right here. You are with me, and you are in me.

But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds," declares the LORD, "because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares." (Jer. 30:16—17)

Have we as a society become radically desensitized to the violence and depravity that is flooding from movie and television studios? It is not that we have become more broad-minded and intellectual; it is that we have adapted to the demonic and have become comfortable in the presence of evil.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.