#fort

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#enquiry #silence #solitude #solitude

Have you strayed from the path leading to heaven? Then call on Mary, for her name means "Star of the Sea, the North Star which guides the ships of our souls during the voyage of this life," and she will guide you to the harbor of eternal salvation. ↗

— Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort

#faith #god #mary #faith

They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#endurance

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#drugs #ecstasy #empathy

Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again. ↗

— Anne Frank

#sadness #self-help

Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, 'This way to safety; this way to home. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#inspirational #light #lighthouse #religious #rescue

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#comfortable #go #go to hell #hell #more

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#always #art #audience #feel #general

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#comfortable #doing #feeling #nothing #very

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#comfort #disciple #discipline #faith #give