Pastoral Resources

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.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection.

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.

There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.

I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.

Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face.

I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.

It is really hard for me to get out of my comfort zone.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.