Pastoral Resources

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the situation is. Months and months and months go by and I know I need to switch to Shelley or somebody else, but right now Yeats is enough for me.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.