Affliction Quotes
Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.
"My father," she admitted, "was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured." She paused. "Though he did die."
Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.
Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!
Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.
God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy.
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.
...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.
Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires.
Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.
If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.
We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.
In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.
Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more.
Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.
He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face.
Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.
The affliction in the flesh of soul is temporal compare to the eternal glory of the spirit.
Genuine faith comes forth from the iron smelter of affliction.
The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today.
It is the people who are afflicted with ungodliness and injustice that would cry unto the Lord for change.
God is reciprocally responding to the cry of the afflicted.
The main recipients of injustice in any society are the afflicted the distressed and the troubled one, both in soul and in body.
We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.
I suffered in my spirit, so that my soul will be restored.
In times of adversity and affliction, may you wait for the Lord to rescue and deliver you.
Courage lightens distress, hope alleviates grief, doubt aggravates affliction, fear worsens anguish, worry magnifies misery, and faith overthrows despair.
The Lord gives the bread of adversity and the water of affliction for spiritual rebirth.
When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.
The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven.
