Giving Comfort Quotes

#1. Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.

Henry Fielding

#2. For me, it's the slow release of my ego and certain belief systems that I identify with that give me comfort and an identity, and it's scary to let go of that.

Richard Brancatisano

#3. 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

#4. Doctors who spend more time talking into their tape recorders instead of looking into the eyes of their patients. (Spare us the "HMOs only give us so much time" diatribe. Medicine is about giving scared people comfort and help for people whose pain level is matched only by their anxiety level.)

Karl Albrecht

#5. Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.

Gore Vidal

#6. Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#7. To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Charles Dickens

#8. We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down.

Michel Odent

#9. When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.

Thomas A Kempis

#10. To me, I like and understand ritual and I think it is important. Things that we do that give us comfort are important. Like Christmas, I like to go into a church and hear the carols sung. There's a comfort of actually going inside of a church, I find them serene. They're unchanging.

Steve Coogan

#11. Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

Marissa Mayer

#12. Let's acknowledge that America's increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. When we tolerate trash on television, permit pornography to invade our homes via the Internet, and allow babies to be killed at the point of birth, we are inflaming radical Islam.

Charles Colson

#13. Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.

Catharine Beecher

#14. Would give any woman who believes in reproductive rights and freedom any comfort.

Nan Aron

#15. There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

Emma Lazarus

#16. If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.

Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

#17. Love means giving up - yielding my preferences, comfort, goals, security, money, energy, or time for the benefit of someone else.

Rick Warren

#18. Often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Andy Stanley

#19. Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.

Thomas Tusser

#20. Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.

Ziggy Marley

#21. When you are in pain, and you see someone else in pain, there is really nothing as satisfying as giving them comfort in the night.

Kelly Corrigan

#22. Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change

Richard G. Scott

#23. As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be all the same. The more this can be done with comfort, the more variety my work has had.

Jack Nicholson

#24. Giving and taking comfort in everything they could give and take, every part of them sought to make themselves one till it was impossible for either to know the comforter from the one being comforted.

Laird Koenig

#25. Our Lord even gives you suffering that you might share the comfort you receive from Him with somebody who is suffering!

J. Vernon McGee

#26. When my time to die comes an angel will be there to comfort me. He will give me peace and joy even at that most critical hour, and usher me into the presence of God, and I will dwell with the Lord forever. Thank God for the ministry of His blessed angels.

Billy Graham

#27. The only thing that this uproar does is give aid and comfort to the enemy and I don't think there's anybody who wants to give aid and comfort to the terrorists,.

Porter Goss

#28. Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good.

Ernest Holmes

#29. Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

Diogenes

#30. If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort is in Psalms, Chapter 11, verse 3, it reads, "When all that is good falls apart, what can good people do?" That's really the question of the day.

Max Lucado

#31. Love for me is comfort. I feel most loved and most capable of giving love when I am around people or in places that make me comfortable.

Amanda Schull

#32. Believing is such a comfort that it's hard to give up a belief just because it isn't true.

Andy Rooney

#33. I was done with him giving me space. I wanted a new kind of comfort from him. Specifically in the form of orgasms.

Samantha Young

#34. Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.

Xenocrates

#35. Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.

Mason Cooley

#36. Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.

Maeve Binchy

#37. If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.

Nirmala Srivastava

#38. He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#39. it's hard giving out love to people who shove it back in your face. That's not what love's supposed to be about. No, it's not perfect and people get hurt, but it's a give and take. And it should be comfort, not pain.

Nyrae Dawn

#40. Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

Sheryl Crow

#41. Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

Madame De Stael

#42. I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.

John Lennon

#43. Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because ... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

Maimonides

#44. Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

Thomas More

#45. It involved giving up what I thought was bringing me comfort, only to clearly see they were leading to a sure and certain early death. I was committing suicide slowly, sweet morsel by sweet morsel (p. 219).

Teresa Shields Parker

#46. Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the family setting. A family should be a place where comfort is experienced and understood, so that the people are prepared to give comfort to others.

Edith Schaeffer

#47. I'm pretty grounded in a lifestyle which disciplines me and gives me a sense of familiarity and comfort.

Aeriel Miranda

#48. The horse responds to comfort, they respond to peace better than about anything else you could do. All he wants you to do is just leave him alone. So if the horse responds to you and you give him a little peace and comfort that means more to him than anything.

Buck Brannaman

#49. Your angels are giving you strength and comfort right now.

Doreen Virtue

#50. Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

Tryon Edwards

#51. The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love and comfort to yourself and the society.

Amit Ray

#52. 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.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#53. Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?

Andy Stanley

#54. There are plenty of easy things that you can do from the comfort of your own home to get you started on the path of giving back.

Jenna Morasca

#55. The Democrats are giving aid and comfort to the enemy for no purpose other than giving aid and comfort to the enemy. There is no plausible explanation for the Democrats' behavior other than that they long to see U.S. troops shot, humiliated, and driven from the field of battle.

Ann Coulter

#56. I can't stand the comfort zone. So many people I know, their parents give them their homes, and they get married and have children, or whatever. That's it. They don't ever go beyond that. That's not what life is.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#57. Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.

Louisa May Alcott

#58. No one has ever mistaken me for someone who should be giving fashion advice, but I will say I'm always impressed by women who have kind of figured out their own style and comfort. That's what I find attractive.

Hugh Dancy

#59. To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved.

Francis Chan

#60. The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.

Dwight L. Moody

#61. But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day, The swallow felt the deepest grief, And longed to give her Lord relief, And chirped when any near would come. Hugswala swala swal honom! Meaning, as they who tell it deem, Oh, cool, oh, cool and comfort Him!

Charles Godfrey Leland

#62. A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

Randy Alcorn

#63. We all have angels guiding us ... They look after us. They heal us, touch us, comfort us with invisible warm hands ... What will bring their help? Asking. Giving thanks.

Sophy Burnham

#64. Singers, actors or artists who touch on sorrow are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#65. Sometimes, you can be more than enough for someone, but they choose not to be in your life. Always remember that Satan works hard to keep people miserable by feeding their fears, so they stay in their comfort zone. The truth is some people value what is predictable, more than chemistry.

Shannon L. Alder

#66. It just shows you have come prepared to play and ready to execute. It doesn't give you that much comfort when it's early and you still have another two and a half to three quarters to go. You better keep playing. But it is a positive, it gives you energy and it gives you a little boost like that.

Bob Stoops

#67. I just want to make sure Mama. Sometimes I don't even know what I want. A lot of times I'm just tired."
Mama reached up and smoothed Liza's curls away from her face. "Well darlin', that's the sign of a life being lived. I think we're all tired when we're giving it our best.

Gwenn Wright