Consoled Quotes

37 quotes by 35 authors

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be… — Francis of Assisi
He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me,… — Saint Patrick
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but… — Earl Warren
Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious… — Aaron Copland
Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as… — Eugene Roe
Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be… — Ephrem the Syrian
I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools. — Pope Benedict XVI
Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and… — Jennifer Stone
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt,… — Francis of Assisi
I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when… — Bertrand Russell
Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their… — Jean de la Bruyere
There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow. — Jan Karon
to feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed to form mutually… — Sarah Kane
I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned my knees as… — Consuelo de Saint-ExupÃ©ry
Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives, When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives, Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain, But… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each… — Isabel Allende
Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out of… — Kim Addonizio
The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and… — Azar Nafisi

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