Whenever I do the sign of the cross, it always brings comfort in situations when you are faced with adversity and stress.
I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
From the world’s perspective, there are many places you can go to find comfort. But there is only one place you will find a hand to catch your tears and a heart to listen to your every longing. True peace comes only from God.
May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.
But our land will not be divided by the enemy at his pleasure the Mother-of-God will spread a white shroud over these great sorrows
Written at the onset of WW I
I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.
God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.
"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.
Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.
The type of movies that give me the heebie jeebies are thrillers, because anything that's playing with your thoughts and mind, that's scary. But one thing that they never do in horror movies that I always do is I pray. You never see them pray in horror movies.
God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.
God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.
Heaven is a place where God will personally wipe away our tears.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
A lot of praying helped me a lot.
In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.
God has been God in my life ever since I can remember.
Our prayers can and should be focused on the practical, everyday struggles of life.
There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'
Only God gives encouragement, not kings.
Gandhi was asked if the King had offered and encouragement for Indian Independence from England.
Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.
God is the Father who is full of mercy. God is the Father who is full of comfort. That is the kind of relationship he offers to you.
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.