#comforting

It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#inspirational #inspirational

Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes. Thy friends do stand by thee...' -Jesus the Christ ↗

— Joseph Smith Jr.

#lds #uplifting #christ

No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#god #theology #anarchy

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#comforting #fact #got #high #high places

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#comforting #confronting #conservatives #fairy #fairy tales

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#comforting #course #else #escapism #human

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#appreciate #comforting #could #death #die

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#comforting #illusion #live #world