“My child, I am the Lord Who gives strength in the day of trouble. Come to Me when all is not well… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult,… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them… — Rose of Viterbo Copy Share Image
I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy… — Karl Marx 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
“But I will finally be with Jesus. That is my one consolation, and it is enough to make death almost no worry… — Therese May Copy Share Image
The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of… — Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr Copy Share Image
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the… — Paul Auster 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
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
I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image