“The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for the sake of the truth. It teaches those too much concerned with a life in the flesh to deepen themselves through such sufferings instead of pursuing ease and comfort; and it makes the flesh's natural weakness in the endurance of suffering a foundation for overwhelming spiritual power. For the natural weakness of the saints is precisely such a foundation, since the Lord has made their weakness stronger than the proud devil.” MadeChristianSpiritualSufferingEvilNaturalLordTeachToo MuchProudComfortGloryWeaknessDevilConcernedStrongerFoundationPatientSakeSaintFleshEaseEnduranceOrthodoxOverwhelmingOrthodox ChristianSpiritual Power Author:Maximus the Confessor
“The chemistry and the comfort and trust between two people playing a love story l is key, and to have a friend that I could trust, and whose sensibilities I already understood, made it so much easier, and is a big part of why it all looks natural on screen.” PeopleLooksMadeTwoStoriesBigsNaturalKeysEasierComfortUnderstoodScreensLove StoryMade ItChemistrySensibility Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.” MenStillsLightEvilSocialNaturalPoorRoomsCompanyCasesConditionsDrinkComfortOffersCustomersAttractionBeerBuyingShopsThrownWarmthCravingPalacesRecognisePoor ManPoisonousReformersGinSocial Conditions Book:In Darkest England and the Way Out Source: In Darkest England and the Way Out
“And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word implies a medicine untroubled by human limitations, contrived wholly by nature or God or perhaps intelligent design. What 'natural' has come to mean to us in the context of medicine is 'pure' and 'safe' and 'benign'. But the use of 'natural' as a synonym for 'good' is almost certainly a product of our profound alienation from the natural world.” WorldWantHumansMeanUseNaturalPowerfulDesignProductsComfortOffersPureSafeIntelligentMedicineProfoundAlternativesLimitationMost PowerfulAlienationNatural WorldBenignIntelligent DesignSynonymAlternative Medicine Author:Eula Biss
“The home is a woman's natural background.... From the beginning I tried to have the policy of the store reflect as nearly as it was possible in the commercial world, those standards of comfort and grace which are apparent in a lovely home.” WorldHomeNaturalGracePolicyComfortStandardsStoresLovelyBackgrounds Author:Hortense Odlum
“Without natural resources life itself is impossible. From birth to death, natural resources, transformed for human use, feed, clothe, shelter, and transport us. Upon them we depend for every material necessity, comfort, convenience, and protection in our lives. Without abundant resources prosperity is out of reach.” HumansUseNaturalOur LivesImpossibleMaterialsDependsBirthComfortResourcesProsperityProtectionTransformedShelterConvenienceTransportNatural Resources Book:Breaking New Ground Source: Breaking New Ground
“Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge, in desiring to ascertain the laws of comfort, has been driven to discover those of conduct, and to lay the foundations of a new morality.” WantHas BeensStillsIdeasSpiritualLawScienceFoundNaturalMoralityComfortFoundationLaysSeekingDrivenCraving Book:Huxley's Autobiography and Essays Source: Huxley's Autobiography and Essays