“Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of . . . words.” FactsLossInspireComfortPreservesProvokingLeaving MeMiraculousA Loss For Words Author:Julian Whitaker
“What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.” FeelingsPleasureSacrificeComfortPreservesNobility Author:Susanna Clarke
“There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.” IfsFactsYoungDiesSimpleSecurityExpressionComfortPrejudicePreparedMalesIdiotPreservesHeroismEldersShortageScarcity Author:Iain Banks
“And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and selfish instinct to preserve our own interests at the expense of God's interests. It's devious, it's deceitful, it's self-indulgent. It's interested only in selfish comfort and will happily crucify Christ afresh to secure it. God also has another name for it- sin.” HeartSelfNamesInterestChristSinComfortInstinctFleshSelfishSecurePreservesExpensesPreferenceDeceitfulSelf IndulgentDevious Book:Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God Source: Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God
“Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy. But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.” IfsThinkingWayWantShouldSaidLastsHeavenTaughtHolyComfortPlentyGod LovePreservesSundayJamMake You ThinkCatechism Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery
“The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.” WorldLoveStatesOrderCausesMarriageComfortAnd LoveFoundationConfusionPreservesLastingMatrimonyPositive MarriageLasting MarriageHealthy Marriage Book:A Benjamin Franklin Reader Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader