Affliction Quotes · Page 8

Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.

— Anonymous

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

— Abu Bakr

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

— Denise Levertov

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

— Washington Irving

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Some of life's greatest lessons are learned in the school of affliction.

— Marianette Carbito

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.

— Michael Pollan

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.

— Frederick William Robertson

Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul…

— William Shakespeare

“Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just…

— Hala Alyan

Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled…

— Anonymous

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle…

— Rose of Lima

When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.

— Richard Sibbes

The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at…

— Matthieu Ricard

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

— David Mallet

Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly…

— Delbert L. Stapley

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we,…

— Walter Savage Landor

I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots;…

— Samuel Rutherford

It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a…

— John Flavel

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger -…

— Dalai Lama

God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that…

— Charles Spurgeon

There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances,…

— Charles Spurgeon

Do not be despondent when fighting against the incorporeal enemy, but even in the midst of your afflictions and oppression praise the…

— John of Kronstadt

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.”

— Jean de La Bruyère

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

— Joseph Hall

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

— Ben Jonson

Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.

— Winifred Holtby

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

— Bodhidharma

Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.

— Pope Gregory I

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

— Fay Weldon

The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.

— Wes Fesler

The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.

— Richard Sibbes

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

— H. G. Wells

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

— Charles Spurgeon

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.

— John Adams

Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.

— Thomas Watson

“God is reciprocally responding to the cry of the afflicted.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.

— Robert Aris Willmott