Consoling Quotes

67 quotes by 63 authors

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down,… — Alain de Botton
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. — Oscar Wilde
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope… — Louis Pasteur
At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying? What more wonderful… — Sogyal Rinpoche
In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us… — Marvin J. Ashton
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty.… — James Madison
Women are mad at me. A girl came up to me on the street and she almost smacked me. Like, â€˜How could you? How could… — Ryan Gosling
Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this creative act of… — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a purpose is to… — Steven Weinberg
Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child is ranting and… — Henri Nouwen
We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling,… — Alain de Botton
The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into… — Evelyn Underhill
His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should… — Diophantus
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers… — Pope John Paul II
These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where… — Lawrence Wright
A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially.… — Timothy Keller
Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the world; and that… — Jerry Bridges
I know whether or not I am confused most readily by noticing--being mindful of--my capacity for feeling caring concern. ... when I feel myself in… — Sylvia Boorstein
Therefore, doing the Stations of the Cross was still more laborious than consoling, and required a sacrifice. It was much the same with all my… — Thomas Merton

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