Quotes for Comfort

Christian quotes for Comfort — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

Henri Nouwen

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

Philip Yancey

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

Henri Nouwen

No one can fall deeper than into the hand of God.

Peter Hahne

The strongest faith isn't a faith that never doubts. Rather, it's a faith that grows through doubts.

Craig Groeschel

Ultimately mourning means facing what wounds us in the presence of One who can heal.

Henri Nouwen

Inner dignity remains, even when performance capacity and social role decline.

Anselm Grün

You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.

Craig Groeschel

But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

C.S. Lewis

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

Henri Nouwen

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

Thomas Merton

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Frederick Buechner

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

Joni Eareckson Tada

May I be the thinking heart of this barrack. I would like to be it again. I would like to be the thinking heart of an entire concentration camp.

Etty Hillesum

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Corrie ten Boom

In me it is dark, but with you there is light; I am lonely, but you do not leave me.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I know nothing at all, except that God reserves everything to himself, but holds on to me.

Jochen Klepper

And if you hand us the heavy cup, the bitter one, of suffering, filled to the very brim, then we take it thankfully without trembling from your good and beloved hand.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I believe in the sun, even when it doesn't shine; I believe in love, even when I don't feel it; I believe in God, even when he is silent.

Unknown

A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Death in its substance has been removed, and only the shadow of it remains… Nobody is afraid of a shadow, for a shadow cannot block a man’s pathway for even a moment. The shadow of a dog can’t bite; the shadow of a sword can’t kill.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay upon the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to Him is not to believe that He loves you.

John Owen

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.

C.S. Lewis

Child of God, you cost Christ too much for Him to forget you.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I am so weak. I can’t read my Bible. I can’t even pray. I can only lie still in God’s arms like a little child and trust.

Hudson Taylor

There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

Richard Sibbes

When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.

Hudson Taylor

We are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the form of a true human. The blows of His chisel that hurt us so much are also what make us perfect.

C.S. Lewis

Look around and you will see distress; look within and you will be depressed; look at Jesus and you will be at rest.

Corrie ten Boom

I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul, though upon the surface, a rough tempest may be raging, and there may be little apparent calm.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience; I do not understand your ways, but you know the right path for me.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Would you lose your sorrow? Would you drown your cares? Then go, plunge yourself in the Godhead's deepest sea; be lost in his immensity; and you shall come forth as from a couch of rest, refreshed and invigorated.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There is fulfilled life despite many unfulfilled wishes.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God gives us in every time of need as much strength of resistance as we need – but not in advance.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

This is the end – for me the beginning of life.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The worst hunger can be the hunger to be noticed and loved.

Mother Teresa

There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.

Craig Groeschel

When no one listens to me anymore, God still listens to me.

Pope Benedict XVI

People quoted here

Henri Nouwen, Philip Yancey, Peter Hahne, Craig Groeschel, Anselm Grün, C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Frederick Buechner, Joni Eareckson Tada, Etty Hillesum, Corrie ten Boom, Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Related

Encouragement, Gratitude, Birthday & Anniversary, Wedding & Marriage, Baptism, Confirmation & Blessing, Farewell & Funeral, New Year & New Beginnings, Morning & Evening, The Church Year, For Reflection

All quotes · lumen.bible