Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it,… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
True healing must come first at the Soul level... prayer aligns our souls with God... By aligning ourselves with God - this… — Rosemary Ellen Guiley Copy Share Image
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you’re into it.” “Withholding judgment!… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged... If you desire virtue, than… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ...… — Hubert Harrison Copy Share Image
Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I'll put it this way, there was no C.P. Kennedy, there was no Dwight Dickham, we never went in the courtroom. That… — Susan Downey Copy Share Image
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
“It is the people who are afflicted with ungodliness and injustice that would cry unto the Lord for change.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Those who have entered into the afflictions of Christ for His Church's sake know something of what they mean, for they have… — Jessie Penn-Lewis Copy Share Image
If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all… — Sir John Davies Copy Share Image
By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease. — John Newton Copy Share Image
You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the… — Magdalena de Pazzi Copy Share Image
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven. — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
“One of the main ways we move from abstract knowledge about God to a personal encounter with him as a living reality… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long… — Ovid Copy Share Image
No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has,… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
