We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation. — Christina, Queen of Sweden Copy Share Image
My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It’s the final tie that binds us The sole source of my… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory. — Brigit of Kildare Copy Share Image
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“This is no consolation,’ Roberta murmured, hiding her face. ‘Just mindless animal warmth.’ ‘I know,’ Jacques said. ‘But it’s all we have.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this… — Saint Blaise Copy Share Image
“God help me, what I wanted to do was to sweep her into my arms and clasp her to my manly bosom… — Rosy Thornton Copy Share Image
As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Christianity offers not merely a consolation but a restoration - not just of the life we had but of the life we… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Poor little fellow! one only consolation have we; his friends mourn and weep, but he is at rest. The pang is over,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“But what distressed him greatly was not having another hermit there to confess him and to receive consolation from; and so he… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Consolation All are not taken; there are left behind Living Beloveds, tender looks to bring And make the daylight still a… — Dan Pollock Copy Share Image
My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“The valet blanched at the thought of four hours in a carriage. "I've sent for Dr. Fansher." As if that would shorten… — Carolyn Jewel Copy Share Image
“For Mercier, it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul: the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“I asked him what kind of consolation a priest could offer to people such as the parents of Okawa school, and he… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
“From the essay on Love, in which he describes as a wilderness experience his daily visits with his wife to a hospital… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
