Everything you go through as a Christian is a training exercise behind which God has a divine purpose. He did not save… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Meekness is an unchanging state of mind, which both in honor and dishonor remains the same. Meekness consists in praying sincerely and… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the… — Tobias Crisp Copy Share Image
I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Even a wild horse can be tamed; even metal that is difficult to work eventually goes into a mold. If you take… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings… — Robert E. Murray Copy Share Image
Our afflictions brothers and sisters often will not be extinguished, they will be dwarfed and swallowed up in the joy of Christ.… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
The portion of some is to have their afflictions by drops, now one drop and then another; but the dregs of the… — Mary Rowlandson Copy Share Image
The origin of brain disease is in many cases predominantly dietary. Although several factors play into the genesis and progression of brain… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
...in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of… — Joseph Williams Copy Share Image
The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life.… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Some labor this side of the veil, others on the other side of the veil. If we tarry here we expect to… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul,… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
