Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
For me, comfort is paramount.
The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.