comfort

Teaching is no joke, sonny! ... Comforting truths, they call it! Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards. Besides, you've no right to call that sort of thing comfort. Might as well talk about condolences! The Word of God is a red-hot iron. And you who preach it 'ud go picking it up with a pair of tongs, for fear of burning yourself, you daren't get hold of it with both hands. It's too funny! Why, the priest who descends from the pulpit of Truth, with a mouth like a hen's vent, a little hot but pleased with himself, he's not been preaching: at best he's been purring like a tabby-cat. Mind you that can happen to us all, we're all half asleep, it's the devil to wake us up, sometimes _ the apostles slept all right at Gethsemane. Still, there's a difference... And mind you many a fellow who waves his arms and sweats like a furniture-remover isn't necessarily any more awakened than the rest. On the contrary. I simply mean that when the Lord has drawn from me some word for the good of souls, I know, because of the pain of it.

We will always find ourselves in trouble when we get comfortable with things as they are.

Beauty can help fill the cracks in people__ hearts and comfort their souls.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.

Comfort is not the objective in a visionary company. Indeed, visionary companies install powerful mechanisms to create /dis/comfort--to obliterate complacency--and thereby stimulate change and improvement /before/ the external world demands it.

In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all cost, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.

In changing times, question everything you take for granted.

This world is too comfort to be changed.This world is too corrupt to be conserved.

There is something magical and transformational about saying __es_ to God. When you take His hand, step out of that boat (your ordinary, comfortable life), and be brave. Instead of spending your lifetime living in fear and playing it safe, you boldly walk in obedience. God makes you brave.

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort.

Life is a concept, like the __niverse", that expands as soon as we reach what we think is its edge.

Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn__ as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front.

Comfort yields complacency. Break free.

Don__ sit at home and wait for mango tree to bring mangoes to you wherever you are. It won__ happen. If you are truly hungry for change, go out of your comfort zone and change the world.

A tiger only needs three things to be comfortable. Lots of food, sleep, and_actually, no it__ just those two things.

And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me__ had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.