Khari’s Reviews > The God of All Comfort > Status Update

"As long as our attention is turned upon ourselves and our own experiences, just so long it is turned away from the Lord...we can only see the thing we look at, and while we are looking at ourselves, we simply cannot 'behold God'. It is not that HE hides Himself; He is always there in full view of all who look unto Him; but if we are looking in another direction, we cannot expect to see Him"

"the promiser is more than his promises; and his existence is a surer ground of confidence than the most fervent inward feelings."

"When we talk about finding our all in Him, we generally mean that we find it in our feelings or our views about him. If...we feel a glow of love toward Him, then we can say heartily that He is enough; but when this glow fails, as sooner or later it is almost sure to do, then we no longer feel that we have found our all in Him. The truth is that what satisfies us is not the Lord, but our own feelings about the Lord."

"It is not by effort or by wrestling that...conformity is to be accomplished; it is by assimilation. According to a natural law, we grow like those with whom we associate, and the stronger character always exercises the controlling influence."

Do we not continually pass by blessings innumerable without notice, and instead fix our eyes on what we feel to be our trials and our losses, and think and talk about these, until our whole horizon is filled with them, and we almost begin to think we have no blessings at all?"

The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.

"Poor nature longs from self-love to behold itself perfect; it is vexed that it is not so, it is impatient, haughty, and out of temper with itself and with everybody else."