Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction. — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
“Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always looks around for the wine.” — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy. — Boethius Copy Share Image
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal… — Israel Regardie Copy Share Image
Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Affliction is not some test that simply exists to build our character. It beats us up. It changes us. It sobers us.… — Russ Ramsey Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets,… — George Downame Copy Share Image
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic… — Plato Copy Share Image
“having the people you love tell you they love you and mean it . . . it never goes out of style.… — Laurell K Hamilton Copy Share Image
In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
“[Suffering] brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings… — Robert Murray McCheyne Copy Share Image
When we receive with an entire and perfect resignation the afflictions which God sends us they become for us favors and benefits;… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
No friend sympathizes so tenderly with his friend in affliction as does Jesus. In all our afflictions, He afflicted. He feels all… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
To know that nothing hurts the godly, is a matter of comfort; but to be assured that all things which fall out… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender… — John Newton Copy Share Image
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
![“[Suffering] brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet juices of the vine; so it is affliction that draws forth submission, weanedness from the world, and complete rest in God. Use afflictions while you have them.” quote by Robert Murray McCheyne](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7e2/robert-murray-mccheyne-40307_affliction_suffering-brings-out-graces-that-cannot_2543652.jpg)
