Quotes About Comfort And Security

#1. The Calvary road with Jesus is not a joyless road. It is a painful one, but it is a profoundly happy one. When we choose the fleeting pleasures of comfort and security over the sacrifices and sufferings of missions and evangelism and ministry and love, we choose against joy. - Author: John Piper

#2. You judge a society by how it treats its citizens. We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security, with the best possible education. - Author: Melania Trump

#3. Change is uncomfortable. And heading out into unfamiliar terrain is risky. Far too many crave comfort and security. And so they lead a limited existence within the safe confines of their velvety prisons. - Author: Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#4. There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots. - Author: Iain Banks

#5. If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort. - Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

#6. There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence. - Author: Tom Robbins

#7. If I love a dose of (good) theology or philosophy, I probably also love discipline, improvement, wisdom, and challenges. If I hate it, I am probably too comfortable and proud to try to question myself. - Author: Criss Jami

#8. While researchers are somewhat conflicted as to why exactly people look for security and comfort when afraid, this basic response is universal: fear leads people to want security and comfort, wherever and however they can find it. - Author: Ryan T. Cragun

#9. Why is it that none of the things I construct ever make me feel safe? The answer lies in the fact that safety can't be created. It can only be found. And the only thing I've found that's never been created is God. - Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured. - Author: Michael D. Higgins

#11. Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand. - Author: Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. You already know the end result ... laid off, fired, no retirement, no benefits, no security and certainly no comfort. - Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki

#13. This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation. - Author: Pema Chodron

#14. The Western world's sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort. - Author: Billy Graham

#15. Forget fashion, dress for comfort and for ease of getting through security, so no hats, belts or unnecessary accessories. - Author: David Harewood

#16. The young... are full of hope and discontent... And the old are those who were once discontented, but who have successfully smothered that flame and have found security and comfort in various ways. - Author: Krishnamurti

#17. The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best. - Author: John Adams

#18. I realize that that's been my problem all along. Not only wanting comfort and security and safety, but looking to others to find it when I need to find it inside myself. - Author: Carrie Ryan

#19. If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you. - Author: Byron Katie

#20. My life is too valuable to remain shielded and protected behind the coziness and comfort of security. - Author: Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#21. When the material, psychological and spiritual dimensions are brought into balance, life becomes whole, and this union brings feelings of comfort and security. - Author: Deepak Chopra

#22. So long as we use comfort and security as our criteria of success, we will fear our own intuitive guidance because by its very nature it directs us into new cycles of learning that are sometimes uncomfortable. - Author: Caroline Myss

#23. We have a great deal of fight inside us, and sometimes our strength of spirit forces us to choose truth and integrity over comfort and security. - Author: Cat Winters

#24. I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy. - Author: Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#25. My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort. - Author: Graham Swift

#26. I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction. - Author: John Steinbeck

#27. For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive. - Author: Christian Lacroix

#28. I can't compare the lives I could have lived. One would have been comfort and security. But the other ... " She sighs. "It was the most love and the most pain and the most wonder I could have ever known. - Author: Carrie Ryan

#29. Almost everyone prefers normality because normality brings comfort and security. But when you think about it, normality hinders the reason why you are on this earth. - Author: Euginia Herlihy

#30. Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness. - Author: H.G.Wells

#31. Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort. - Author: Pema Chodron

#32. Treat the earth kindly, my friends, and it will give you comfort, security, and all a man may need. If you plant a flake of gold in the earth, will anything come of it? But plant a seed and it will repay you many times over. - Author: Louis L'Amour

#33. The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry. - Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#34. Innovation is always a product of individual innovators, a rare and dynamic breed not always appealing to the millions who depend on their creativity for their own comfort, health, and security. - Author: George Gilder

#35. Clothing gave you comfort, a sense of security and individuality, or just something to hide within. By removing it from the equation, by stripping a person down to their bare essence, it keeps you off guard, humbled and subdued - Author: Johnny Stone

#36. 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. - Author: Emma Thompson

#37. The only thing money really buys? ... Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money. - Author: Louise Penny

#38. Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and humiliation. - Author: Lesslie Newbigin

#39. I still have my Levi's jacket that I bought on the Portobello Road when I was 14, and it's like part of me, you know, it's got oils in it, and it's my comfort, security blanket or something. - Author: Liberty Ross

#40. Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing. - Author: D.H. Lawrence

#41. Peace, a commodity purchased with friendship and safety and anything comfortable and all things familiar; peace that was a pleasant melody playing through the moments of their day; a chord striking only the notes of security and agreement and understanding and order. - Author: Dan Groat

#42. We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence. - Author: H.G.Wells

#43. People keep planning their lives
searching security and comfort.
This silence is the only security I know
those who can understand will understand. - Author: Rajneesh

#44. For true liberation, you do not need to fight. You simply have to change your thoughts and drift away from conformity, comfort, security, and certainty of life and embrace and enjoy the possibilities and magnificence of the uncertainty of life. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#45. We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel. - Author: Francis Chan

#46. Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security, material comfort and knowledge that were unknown to the elites of the wealthiest and most powerful societies in earlier times. - Author: Ross Garnaut

#47. We spend a lifetime working hard to accumulate homes and possessions that we believe are vital for comfort and security, only to discover those material accumulations are quite meaningless in our darkest hour of sadness and need. Another - Author: Paul V. Stutzman