Affliction Quotes
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.
There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.
If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were.
There will be no Christian but what will have a Gethsemane, but every praying Christian will find that there is no Gethsemane without its angel!
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.
Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.
There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.
It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.
You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward.
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.
Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction.
There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.
Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.
We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.
After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that man was due to karmic debts.
My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction.
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.
Having a crush is a bit like being infected with the most annoying, troubling and yet delicious disease you could get. It is almost more of an affliction.
The healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ-whether it removes our burdens or strengthens us to endure and live with them like the Apostle Paul-is available for every affliction in mortality.
Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.
I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned.
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.