comfort

We may have to face God's truth about our pain--it is real, but we must be careful not to get God and life mixed up. God does not cause the pain and sorrow. He suffers with us and desires to comfort us as only he can.

Doing this was likewading and then throwing yourself into the lake for the first icy swim, in June. A sickening shock at first, then amazement thatyou were still moving, lifted up on a stream of steely devotion__alm above the surface of your life, surviving, though the pain ofthe cold continued to wash into your body.

What was the point in crying when there was no one to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?

Perhaps they never die at all. I quite believe that myself, and it is a comfort, don't you think? That there is a place where no one ever grows old?

May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rough all you need is ... Chocolate.

Remember, you are never alone in this world. Never.

I'm glad you're here,' said Laurent. 'I always thought that I'd have to face my uncle alone.' He turned to look at Damen, and their eyes met.'You're not alone,' said Damen.Laurent didn't answer, but he did give a smile, and reached out to touch Damen, wordlessly.

Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life is hard enough without being punished for it afterwards. We get comfort when we die, that's the whole idea

Without the hard we stay too soft, and heaven is reduced to myths like life. Theology aside, it__ plain to see that God forbids we get too comfortable.

The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept.

I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well.

I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for comfort is in reality the demand that I put myself first, and there is nothing of sacrifice in that.

When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again."That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small.

God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you.

Things work out the way they're supposed to.

Forsake it in the morning. Do not ring it the next day.Make no commitment to comfort.

we talk of plans that are going to happen.we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.there is a sort of comfort in that.