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Our creature comforts — Matthew Henry

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find. — John Churton Collins

In times like these, when their fat little comforts are threatened, you may be sure that science is the first thing men will sacrifice. — Ayn Rand

How many of us are embracing the comforts of suburban America while we turn a deaf ear to inner cities in need of the gospel? — David Platt

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day. — Ramakrishna

Time evaporate, money is always needed, comforts found where they were not expected and excitement dug up in barren ground. — Susan Sontag

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits. — Robert Southey

You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing. — Judith Guest

Hell, yes, I'm jealous. I'm jealous of anyone who comforts you. Who pulls you into his arms and makes the hurt go away. — J. Kenner

A hand held tightly, never to really let go.
Fills up life around you, for the comforts within our soul. — Patty Smith

Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts! — J.R.R. Tolkien

The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared. — Francis Galton

Give up the lesser comforts for the greater happiness. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Mediocrity comforts the masses. Mediocrity is a likeable attribute. — Shobhaa De

Rest and quiet are the comforts of those who have been content to remain in obscurity. — Anthony Trollope

The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within. — Guru Gobind Singh

One's appreciation of meager comforts, it seems, depends on what misery one has gone through before getting them. — Alice Munro

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn. — Abraham Lincoln

If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, for as long as I possibly could. — Sylvia Plath

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion. — William Wordsworth

You're a classic case of Horney's: the man who comforts himself not with what he achieves, but with what he dreams of achieving. — Luke Rhinehart

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us. — Stephen Charnock

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. — Francis Bacon

[ ... ] no man can be a good judge of the comforts a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex [ ... ] — Jane Austen

As to the past, I would not mind retrieving from various corners of space-time certain lost comforts, such as baggy trousers and long, deep bathtubs. — Vladimir Nabokov

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first. — E.F. Schumacherm

The house seemed to have all the comforts of little Children, dirt and litter. — Jane Austen

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way. — Muhammad

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. — Mahatma Gandhi

It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money. — Mark Hart

The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books. — Anatoly Rybakov

God comforts us to make us comforters, not to make us comfortable. — Ray C. Stedman

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. — Oliver Goldsmith

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. — Hedy Lamarr

God is everything that is good, she writes. All life's pleasures and comforts are sacramental; they are God's hands touching us. — Julian Of Norwich

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul. — Phillip Moffitt

God comes into our heart - He finds it full - He begins to break our comforts and to make it empty; then there is more room for grace. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts. — Thomas Jefferson

Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment. — Mark Steyn

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind. — Alexis Carrel

In order to escape from this prison, one must learn not to come to an arrangement with its indisputable comforts. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

I've nothing against faith, Lukas, as long as it gives people spiritual support, comforts them, inspires them to do better. — Hanni Munzer

Circumstances might be hard enough that maybe you need to find the little comforts, even if they aren't good for you. — Wildbow

Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched. — Edward Young

I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me. — Joe Mansueto

always stressed that the comforts they enjoyed came with a responsibility to give back. — George W. Bush

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner. — Ernest Rutherford

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more. — Albert Camus

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. — Robert Browning

Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness. — Konosuke Matsushita

Birds seem to be the happiest creatures on earth, yet they have none of what we call the comforts of life. — Olive Thorne Miller

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God. — Lew Wallace

I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either. — Mary Russell Mitford

...those victories they boast were not the substantial joys of the happy, but the empty comforts of wretched men... — Augustine Of Hippo

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us. — Peter Eisenman

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. — Benjamin Franklin

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him. — Laurence Sterne

For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught
To be contented with the least. — William Davenant

We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss. — Plautus

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts. — Thomas Brooks

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels. — John Charles Pollock

But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care. — Aaron McGruder

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. — Cleopatra

The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off." — Dave Ramsey

Comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable: — Wally Lamb

Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate. — Christopher Paolini

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Love comforts, it is gentle, it is warm and you can feel it within your entire being. — Ellen J. Barrier

that life was full of small comforts which were all the time making for happiness, and that we did not sufficiently appreciate them. — Katrina Avilla Munichiello

To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions. — Marty Neumeier

And though we have all the comforts of the world, we find no comfort in them. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Condemned to Hope's delusive mine,
As on we toil from day to day,
By sudden blasts or slow decline
Our social comforts drop away. — Samuel Johnson

Many like to hear of the love of Christ, but not of loving their enemies; they like the comforts of the word, but not its reproofs. — Thomas Watson

I'm not defective. I want to be touched. I've denied myself this most basic of human comforts my whole life and I'm ready to move on. — J.A. Huss

The gospel shall be victorious. This greatly comforts and refreshes me. — John Owen

The fewer one's comforts, the fewer one's needs; and the fewer one's needs, the greater one's happiness. — Jules Verne

For the intellectual, material comforts are relatively unimportant. — Richard Crossman

She awoke from a long childhood in which she had always been protected and surrounded by attention and comforts, with no responsibilities. — Isabel Allende

I love my creature comforts. — Stephen Graham

England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there. — Sylvia Plath

Your power stations, your cars, your creature comforts. Well, you lived too long. The bill's due. Today. — David Mitchell

Why seekest thou rest when thou art born to labour? Prepare thyself for patience more than for comforts, and for bearing the cross more than for joy. — Thomas A Kempis

Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer. — William Shakespeare

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The heavens forbid
But that our loves and comforts should increase
Even as our days do grow! — William Shakespeare

Truth is a strange companion. It devastates one moment and enthralls the next. But it never deceives. And because of that, in the end, it comforts. — Susan Meissner

You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way. — Mark Lynas

One dangerous thing about comfort is this: it always comforts and it can really stop real purpose! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean. — William Cowper

Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to comforts. — Sandra Byrd

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost. — Jonathan Tropper

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts. — Matthew Henry

Traveling a lot and touring, you're in and out of hotels, and you don't have any comforts around. — Conrad Sewell

I have long relied on the comforts of martyrdom. — Barbara Kingsolver

I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines — Joanne Harris

I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist! — Mary Hays

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in. — Mason Cooley

When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them. — John Flavel

Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead. — Donna Lynn Hope