Pastoral Resources

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild.

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.