Now when Job's three friends heard of all these troubles that had come upon him, each of them set out from his home--Eliphaz the T...emanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to go and console and comfort him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Father of mercies and the God of all consolation, who consoles us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to console those w...ho are in any affliction with the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort ma...n. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem to ...measure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What generous beliefs console The brave whom Fate denies the goal!... If others reach it, is content: To Heaven's high will his will is bent. Firm on his heart relied, What lot soe'er betide, Work of his hand He nor repents nor grieves, Pleads for itself the fact, As unrepenting Nature leaves Her every act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A higher class, in the estimation and love of this city- building, market-going race of mankind, are the poets, who, from the inte...llectual kingdom, feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures which raise men out of the world of corn and money, and console them for the short-comings of the day, and the meanness of labor and traffic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »