Creature Comforts Quotes

• One drop of the Lord's mercy is better than an ocean of the world's comfort.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Ocean, Comfort, World

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Apr 30, 2014

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• Our creature comforts

  Matthew Henry

  Comfort, Creatures

  Matthew Henry (1830). “The pleasantness of a religious life opened and proved”, p.42

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• They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

  Matthew Henry

  Comfort, Satisfaction, Sweetest

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.372

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• Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

  Ramakrishna

  Attachment, Names, Comfort

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• Don't assume that money, shelter and creature comforts are enough to demonstrate your love. Nothing can replace your presence, your hug, your smile, your touch - you!

  Denis Waitley

  Love, Hug, Your Smile

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• Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly on his own. If the nest is too cushy, if all of his creature comforts are there for his enjoyment, then he may set up his high-definition television and perch for a while.

  Dennis Rainey

  Men, Comfort, Television

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• You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way.

  Mark Lynas

  Mean, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs.

  Tom Robbins

  Technological Development, Comfort, Bombs

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off."

  Dave Ramsey

  Writing, Comfort, Expenses

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• The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.

  David McCord

  Kings, Comfort, Sanctuary

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• You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.

  Roone Arledge

  Leadership, Sports, Meaningful

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• Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

  Bayard Taylor

  Sea, Voyages, Comfort

  Bayard Taylor (1870). “Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.25

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• I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isnt about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

  Wendie Malick

  Thinking, Balance, Comfort

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• We want everything. All the happiness that earth and heaven are capable of bestowing. Creature comforts, and heart and soul comforts also; and, proud-spirited beings that we are, we will not be put off with a part. Give us only everything, and we will be content. And, after all, Cinderella, you have had your day. Some little dogs never get theirs. You must not be greedy. You have KNOWN happiness. The palace was Paradise for those few months, and the Prince's arms were about you, Cinderella, the Prince's kisses on your lips; the gods themselves cannot take THAT from you.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dog, Heart, Kissing

  Jerome K. Jerome (2012). “The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.30, The Floating Press

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• I think the biggest reason otherwise radical people don't want to face the necessity of ending industrial civilization is privilege. We're the ones reaping the benefits. We've sold out the rest of life on earth for convenience, creature comforts, and cheap consumer goods, and it's appalling. I'm sickened by this bargain.

  Lierre Keith

  Thinking, Civilization, Rest Of Life

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