There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“...the furnace of affliction comes from doing what seems right in our own eyes...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it — Mary Rowlandson Copy Share Image
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St.… — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
“If your positivity immune system is low, any exposure to a person afflicted with negativity can poison your life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution,… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown...… — Gertrude the Great Copy Share Image
There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The cloud which appeared to the prophet Ezekiel carried with it winds and storms, but it was environed with a golden circle,… — Nicolas Caussin Copy Share Image
I believe the hard heartest, most cross grained and most unloving Christians in all the world are those who have not had… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve. — Thomas Binney Copy Share Image
Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But if you in your pain call birth an affliction and the support of the flesh a curse written upon your brow,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
If you do not understand what God's present claims over you are, you may depend upon it that as days of testing… — George Wigram Copy Share Image
“affliction is better than sin, and if God sends the one to cleanse us from the other, let us thank him, and… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“All troubles, afflictions, and ultimately birth and death follow the same highway out of one’s own unmoving perfect self-nature.” — Bhiksus Heng Sure, Heng Ch’au Copy Share Image
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb! — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
