Of course, I quiet agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable discomfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in the dismay and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay. In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is one thing you cannot get looking for it. If you look for the truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth-only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and the in the end, despair.
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SENECA I find comfort in numbers and that is number one MARK MAISH Real comfort is found when I understand that I am held in the hollow of the hand of the One who crea... PAUL DAVID TRIPP The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end. GEORGE MICHAEL It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF The only thing that this uproar does is give aid and comfort to the enemy and I don't think there's ... PORTER GOSS I think the experience will be huge for us. There is a certain level of comfort you get from being a... BRYAN KRAMER I find no comfort in the Now, it is far too brief. SEAN MAURICE HUNT I froze in place, bracing myself for the coming panic attack. Ben had said he was falling for me. Th... ANISE EDEN When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is tryin... LEMONY SNICKET She asks me if I think he's going to come back and get her. I say, 'No he's never going to be able t... GLORIA COCHRANE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN You get used to the guys hitting around you [when you have a regular spot in the batting order]. You... JUSTIN MORNEAU People need to rediscover the ability to find comfort amidst discomfort. It is only while enduring d... HANNO LANGENHOVEN You needn't be trying to comfort me, I tell you my dolly is dead! There's no use in saying she isn't... MARGARET JANVIER Coming out of your comfort zone is tough in the beginning, chaotic in the middle, and awesome in the... MANOJ ARORA If 'life begins at the end of your comfort zone,' then lots of us are waiting to get born! DAVID L. HATTON When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a be... MADISON MARLOW Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end.... DEYTH BANGER To stuck in the comfort zone is to never find out what you are capable of. VITALI ZVEREV In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confiden... LADY GAGA True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship,... MEGAN DEVINE In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics. MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener. ABBEY LEE KERSHAW There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testim... THOMAS S. MONSON Remaining in your comfort zone will produce more discomfort than you can imagine. 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LEWIS Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is ... C.S. LEWIS The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I wa... C.S. LEWIS Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, ... C.S. LEWIS Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to av... C.S. LEWIS We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and... C.S. LEWIS Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t... C.S. LEWIS No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. C.S. LEWIS And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, am... C.S. LEWIS You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. C.S. LEWIS Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon hi... C.S. LEWIS I desired dragons with a profound desire. C.S. LEWIS What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on wh... C.S. LEWIS Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w... C.S. LEWIS You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of... C.S. LEWIS But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do ... C.S. LEWIS You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect th... C.S. LEWIS Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Ind... C.S. LEWIS People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, 'If you keep a lot ... C.S. LEWIS The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. C.S. LEWIS We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shov... C.S. LEWIS I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but becaus... C.S. LEWIS In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A y... C.S. LEWIS Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t... C.S. LEWIS Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. C.S. LEWIS I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give... C.S. LEWIS Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he... C.S. LEWIS You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m... C.S. LEWIS We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that... C.S. LEWIS If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explan... C.S. LEWIS All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are... C.S. LEWIS A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from thos... C.S. LEWIS Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods. C.S. LEWIS What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong tu... C.S. LEWIS If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis... C.S. LEWIS Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ... C.S. LEWIS Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither. C.S. LEWIS “If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we ... C.S. LEWIS To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possib... C.S. LEWIS If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of t... C.S. LEWIS Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, b... C.S. LEWIS I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The gre... C.S. LEWIS The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epic... C.S. LEWIS Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ... C.S. LEWIS The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small pric... C.S. LEWIS