Affliction Quotes
If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.
When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.
Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.
The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.
Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.
The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.
From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.
But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly.
Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.
It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?
A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.
A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.
Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.
The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.
Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.
I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts aimed at my heart. All I needed was the courage to be me.
It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.
Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.
The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.
By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.
By looking up, by raising our eyes above our limited horizon, we are more likely to perceive the blessings hidden in affliction.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.
Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.
Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul.
Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.
Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
