"comforting thing" is a correct phrase that can be used in written English.
You could use it in a sentence like, "It was a comforting thing to know I had my family's support."
THE comforting thing about each "national conversation on race" is that the "teachable moment" passes before any serious conversation can get going.
In this case, a little knowledge is a very powerful, wise, and comforting thing.
Focusing on the physically comforting thing is a form of mindfulness and means that you are living in the moment, which is a place antithetical to fear.
For Chelsea, that comforting thing is apparently Petr Cech.
And that's the comforting thing that we were there together.
To disappear into a crowd can sometimes be a comforting thing.
One of the comforting things about American election campaigns is the way the monetary playing field keeps leveling.
But then I've started saying all manner of comforting things to the philosopher of walking, including telling him that he needs to go for a walk.
Here, JPMorgan has admirably provided its own self-analysis, and its task force prescribes more risk analysis, better risk models and management — all of the comforting things you would want — as a remedy.
Motivated, as is her "Lear," by the death of her father, Ms. Lee sings of senseless loss and "some really sort of ordinary comforting things that have somehow managed to make me feel a little better".
One of the comforting things about Spencer High is that it's noncompetitive.
