“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us… — John Powell 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
It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the… — Melissa McCarthy Copy Share Image
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more. — Rihanna Copy Share Image
God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
“While racial minorities across every civilized country in the world are still waiting for their break, our kind (stutterers) became emperors (i.e.,… — Anas Hamshari Copy Share Image
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to… — John Forbes Nash Copy Share Image
In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction. — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
From the time of Cain until the last believer before Christ's return, we are all fundamentally in the same boat. We suffer… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change.… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts… — Jimmy Scott Copy Share Image
“As I took up life as a minister, I tried to understand why so many people resisted and rejected God, I soon… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“To see her is a picture— To hear her is a tune— To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June— To… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
