Comfort The Afflicted Quotes

#1. James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.

Anne McCaffrey

#2. A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#3. Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Finley Peter Dunne

#4. There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. Nice and good are different. Being nice involves immediate actions and immediate consequences - you give water to the thirsty and comfort to the afflicted right here, right now. Being good involves living in the world so that you contribute to the welfare of your fellow human beings.

Charles Murray

#6. The business of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable was one of the aphorisms his boss liked to quote.

Sara Gruen

#7. The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.

Shelley Duvall

#8. I may as well cut my losses and make a hasty exit while I still had enough self-esteem to walk upright. Crawling was so demoralizing

Darynda Jones

#9. My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.

Scott McCloud

#10. Prudence thanked him, experiencing that feeling of contrition which comes to all of us when we have made up our minds to dislike people for no apparent reason and they then perform some kind action.

Barbara Pym

#11. O Hope, sweet flatterer! thy, delusive touch
Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort,
Relieves the load of poverty, sustains
The captive, bending with the weight of bonds,
And smooths the pillow of disease and pain.

Richard Glover

#12. I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.

Lucille Clifton

#13. When you carry the WEIGHT of yesterday, it will ruin the POWER of today and the PROGRESS of tomorrow.

Tony Evans

#14. There are two kinds of audiences. There's the ones who were in the theaters, and the ones who are outside and we want them to come inside the theater. And, it's not the same.

Michel Hazanavicius

#15. Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

Izaak Walton

#16. instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful, admonish sinners, bear wrongs patiently, forgive offences willingly, comfort the afflicted, pray for the living and the dead.

Philip Yancey

#17. Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.

Brian D. McLaren

#18. You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

Princess Diana

#19. Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of the Kellogg's Pop-Tarts box that says, Warning: Pastry Filling May Be Hot When Heated.

Tom Vanderbilt

#20. May the Lord comfort the afflicted souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

Tryon Edwards

#22. I hope you have had spiritual experiences that have taught you that the only source of comfort when you are afflicted is the Word of God. Only it assures you of your salvation.

C.F.W. Walther

#23. Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Mikhail Bakunin

#24. In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#25. All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

C.S. Lewis