“I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work—and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort in these, our times—until he or she embraces the divinity of the Book of Mormon and the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it testifies.” BookJesusChristLordComfortJesus ChristEmbraceOur TimeDivinityLatterLord Jesus ChristLatter Days Author:Jeffrey R. Holland
“Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.” MindMaySoulJoyDecisionAnswersMoralGenerationsSourceComfortFutureSceneEthicsConceptsEmbraceEnvironmentalDetermineBroadsEthicalFuture GenerationPrimalVigilantRight Answers Author:Sigurd F. Olson
“...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.” WantBelieveIdeasFactsEarthUniverseGivenI BelieveGrowsKnownDoubtComfortUnderstoodEmbraceResistanceGenerosityAbundanceMajestyScarcity Author:Alice Walker
“As we contemplate with reverence and awe how our Savior embraces us, comforts us, and heals us, let us commit to become His hands, that others through us may feel His loving embrace.” FeelsMayHandsComfortEmbraceHealCommitAweSaviorReverenceContemplating Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.” LongProcessGrowthTermKeysComfortSafeSafetyEmbraceExcellenceLong TermExpensesMediocrityShellsStaticLearning Process Author:Joshua Waitzkin
“The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace each other, to engage each other, to not be afraid of each other. The music certainly has that very strong element. Go back to folk songs, gospel, jazz, and spirituals. See, all of that came out of tremendous pain and hurt, rejection, loss, alienation, and abandonment. What I'm doing is I'm expressing my pain and hope at the same time.” EnoughPainSongStrongHurtLossComfortEmbraceJazzRejectionVery StrongAlienationAbandonment Author:Cecil Williams
“We have opted for petty determinisms - childhood trauma, genetic inheritance, social conditioning, etc. - that have made us comparatively passive. We seem to prefer to find excuses - which are really nothing more than the embrace of determinism, a sort of Stockholm syndrome relative to whatever we can claim as limitation. I am fascinated by the more enabling self-understanding. It has helped me to find my way out of the cloying comforts that are offered by prevalent psychological models.” ChildhoodComfortEmbraceExcuseTraumaPsychologicalMy WayLimitationRelativePassiveDeterminism Author:Marilynne Robinson
“I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.” IfsI CanIdeasSufferingEconomyVirtueComfortPaidEmbraceShakesPsychicsSuccess Happiness Author:Hugh Laurie
“They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.” KnowsPersonsSimpleIdentityCircumstancesComfortUnderstoodEmbraceIntimacyDesperateAbandonAllowingFoldsFiberReplicate Author:Christopher Paolini
“Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. I reach out for him and say something like his name and he's there, holding me and patting my back. "It's okay. It'll be okay, sweetheart." He sits me on a length of broken marble pillar and keeps an arm around me while I sob.” WantPersonsEndsNamesBrokenArmsComfortOkayEmbraceLengthReach OutMarblePillarsPeetaSweetheartHaymitchHaymitch Abernathy Book:Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3) Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“The heart that loves must one day grieve. Love and grief are the Goddess's twined gifts. Let the pain in, let it open your heart to compassion. Let me help you bear your grief and then may your heart ease and open to greater love. May the love that flows eternally through the universe embrace and comfort you. p.85” HeartMayHelpingPainUniverseGriefCompassionGreaterBearsComfortOne DayFlowLet MeEmbraceEaseGrievingGoddessOpen Your HeartGreater Love Book:The Calling: Book Seven Source: The Calling: Book Seven
“Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew.” PastLife IsMemoriesTeachComfortFoundationEmbraceAccomplishLive LifeAccomplishedEach DayLive Life To Its FullestCherished Memories Author:Terry Goodkind
“God has no other hands than ours. If the sick are to be healed, it is our hands that will heal them. If the lonely and the frightened are to be comforted, it is our embrace, not God's, that will comfort them.” IfsGodHandsHealingComfortLonelySickEmbraceHealFrightenedTheologianComfortingHealed Author:Dorothee Solle