Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at. " When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think.
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. One would say that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man. There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God.
Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.
There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
Flow wine, smile woman, and the universe is consoled.
I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.
A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
