“Pain demands to be felt," he said, which was a line from An Imperial Affliction.” — John Green Copy Share Image
The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction! — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we… — George Downame Copy Share Image
The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable… — Ouida Copy Share Image
I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your… — David Platt Copy Share Image
The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all… — David L. Katz Copy Share Image
In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly,… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most… — Joseph Caryl Copy Share Image
