Affliction Quotes

“Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.”

— Jeri Smith-Ready

Afflictions clarify the soul.

— Francis Quarles

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

— Laini Taylor

“Writing is not a talent. It is an affliction.”

— Mike Engleman

Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

— Jeremiah Burroughs

Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.

— Thomas Watson

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

— Thomas Watson

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.

— Charles Spurgeon

As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.

— Charles Spurgeon

Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.

— Mary Baker Eddy

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...

— Lydia Lunch

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned

— Jane Elliott

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

— Benjamin Franklin

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

— Thomas a Kempis

There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.

— Thomas Watson

Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps…

— John Brown

Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.

— Jo Coudert

Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by…

— Augustus William Hare

God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.

— Theodore L. Cuyler

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

— Thomas Brooks

Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn…

— Charles Spurgeon

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

— Dalai Lama

I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think,…

— John Green

Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than…

— Saint Francis de Sales

...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle,…

— Martin Luther

Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right…

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient,…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but…

— Andrew Pyper

You know that you yourself are not always in the same state. If you are exact today, closely united to God, and…

— Vincent de Paul

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in…

— Tryon Edwards

Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith…

— John Henry Newman

A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who…

— John Climacus

If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange…

— J. C. Ryle

Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more…

— Samuel Hahnemann

It is difficult to look at any newborn baby and accept that he or she will necessarily encounter pain, challenges, disappointments, and…

— Eric D. Huntsman

How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We must have faith during the period of our grief. We think that our afflictions will be greater than we can bear,…

— Francois Fenelon

When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you…

— Jeremiah Burroughs