Consolations Quotes
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We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.
Abraham Isaac Kook -
I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.
Alice James
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How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the completeness of his salvation!
F. B. Meyer -
I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.
Abraham Lincoln -
The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.
Sigmund Freud -
Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
Hector Hugh Munro