"God taking from us and loving us at……" — Susan Vreeland
"God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us."
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11 Quotes by Susan Vreeland
Susan Vreeland has 11 quotes on this site.
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What the world calls failure, I call learning.
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Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.
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I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through…
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Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.
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That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its…
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It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me,…
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Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.
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If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even…
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You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright…
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He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch…
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More Comforters Quotes
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There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and…
— Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
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Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally…
— A. S. Byatt
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Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and…
— Celia Thaxter
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In their role as celestial servants to humans on earth, Angels act variously as guardians, guides, teachers, truth-givers and comforters,…
— Unknown Author
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God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.
— John Henry Jowett
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Those who have suffered make the best comforters.
— Billy Graham
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I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The…
— Lisa Vanderpump
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Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building…
— Cornelia Funke
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The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral…
— Jon Stewart
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History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are comforters, but no real helpers.
— Sreenadh
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