Affliction Quotes · Page 9

The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.

— John Flavel

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

— Francis Atterbury

Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.

— Henry Vaughan

“For, if I imp my wing on thine, Affliction shall advance the flight in me.”

— George Herbert

Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.

— Billy Graham

All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

— George Whitefield

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to…

— Christopher Love

A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.

— William Faulkner

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in…

— Jeremiah Burroughs

Afflictions clarify the soul; And like hard masters, give more hard directions, Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections.

— Francis Quarles

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and…

— Joseph Addison

Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.

— Charles Spurgeon

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

— Mencius

“It is for my good that I was afflicted, so that I might learn Your statutes. [...] Had Your Torah not been…

— Anonymous

If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange…

— J. C. Ryle

Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune…

— Heidi Julavits

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his…

— Richard Steele

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction;…

— Hosea Ballou

And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them…

— L. Tom Perry

As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune…Despair has steps leading upward. From…

— Victor Hugo

Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard,…

— Brian Clough

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

— Jessye Norman

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

— Charles Spurgeon

Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.

— Charles Spurgeon

With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.

— Miguel de Molinos

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

— John of the Cross

Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified

— Margaret Mary Alacoque

The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?

— Alexander MacLaren

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

— Laurence Sterne

Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

— Alexander Pope

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

— Hannah More

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

— C. S. Lewis

“The severest affliction is the one which has never been tried.”

— Publius Syrus

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.

— Henry Mackenzie

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

— Simone Weil

There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.

— Samuel Rutherford